Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Help your child understand why it's so important to take care of the environment with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the spectacled bear.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

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.

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.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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.

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

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

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Use this exercise with your students as they work through the realms of realism and fantasy.

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Election season is here, so pull out the crayons and let your future voter dive into the world of politics.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.