Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

Do you know how to haiku? This haiku worksheet gives your budding poet practice with counting syllables and noticing the role of rhythm in poetry.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Put the sentences of the story in order from start to finish by numbering them. Read the story in the correct order when you're finished.

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

For October (or just for kids who love scary stories!), here's a great telling of Bancho Sarayashiki, one of Japan's most famous ghost stories.

Children learn about Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and civil rights advocate best remembered for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement.

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

Help your students take organized notes on a book, lesson, or video with this helpful worksheet. Kids will record facts they already know, what they learn, and questions they still have. Then they can paste their notes in their composition notebook.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

Is Washington, D.C. a U.S. state or a city? Find out about our nation's capital with this fun, informative history worksheet.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

Learn more about Julia Morgan, the woman who designed her way into California history, and also practice reading informational paragraphs.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.