Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to challenge them to reflect on the year and pick out the highs and lows of the year. We all go through them, and what is important is that we learn from them.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use this creative reading and writing worksheet to have your child make their own two truths and one lie game to share with a friend.

What are Floyd and Roly talking about? Fill in the word balloons and make up your own comic!

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Help students practice generating titles for book names in this creative exercise.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Just like animals, you also need time to rest and recharge. Write about it with this reflective writing prompt!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

This worksheet walks young writers through the steps of adding conjunctions and adverbs to simple sentences.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

Learn to edit like a pro in this writing worksheet!

Uncover the ways that fables can communicate themes with this creative-writing worksheet!

Highlight your favorite things with this worksheet that spans the school year!

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Help students learn how to recognize the beats in a poem with this worksheet.

After reading the classic Aesop fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," students will use their imaginations to compose their own introductions using one of the most common story hooks (fact, question, description, statement, or sound).

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

There's more than one way to hook a reader! Help your students reinforce their understanding of captivating story starters with this Goldilocks-themed matching worksheet.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

Third person narrative is one of the most common techniques used in storytelling. Help your young writer understand when to use "it" or "they" as they endeavor to write a personal narrative using the singular and plural forms of third person pronouns.