Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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.

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

About 14 million people visit the historic city of Berlin each year. Give your students the opportunity to study and share historic facts and places in Germany's capital with this brochure exercise.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

As your students read the nonfiction text in this travel brochure activity, they will learn about the many cultures that have enriched the diverse city of Lisbon.

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.