Special effects in movies have been around almost as long as movies themselves. These worksheets introduce kids to the early filmmaker, Georges Méliès.

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.

Kids love nonsense, in case you haven't already noticed, and this wacky worksheet will work your wonderful wordsmith into a nonsense whirlwind.

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

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.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Children learn about the history of the cycling event, one of the oldest sports in modern Olympic Games history.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

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

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.

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

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

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

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Travel back in time to discover the Cheyenne tribe. Young readers will learn all about Native American history with this worksheet.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.