When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Did you know that Queen Isabella of Spain paid for Columbus' expedition to the New World? Read more about this interesting woman in history.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Challenge your student's knowledge of the U.S. presidents with this series of match-up games.

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

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

They don't make gardens like this anymore. More a combinaton amusement park and treasure trove, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the spot to visit.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool starfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool whale facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Your child can make her own storybook with this series of Japanese folktale coloring pages!

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

Calling all chefs! This menu needs a new sandwich item. Can you come up with a delicious and innovative concoction?

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.