With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

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

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, students give thought to the various settings in the story with this creative post-reading prompt!

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

Ride the range with the Comanche culture in this worksheet about the history of Native American tribes.

Engage in some sneaky warfare with the tale of the Trojan Horse, one of the most legendary Greek myths ever told.

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.

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Jane Goodall has devoted her life to studying animals in the wild. This worksheet should spark an interest in research and recording in kids who love animals.

Use this two-page graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast informational narratives from two different genres.

Learn about these surprisingly diverse biomes, then test your biome and geography know-how with a desert-mapping activity.

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Learn about one of the most famous composers (and one of the first musicians to be known by only one name), Ludwig van Beethoven, in this biography of his life.

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

Those tiny bumps on signs are one of the biggest inventions in modern history. Meet Louis Braille, a man who has helped millions of people worldwide.

In "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader meets a friendly shoemaker. This Grimm's fairy tale is told through colorable pictures and kid-friendly text.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.