Get ready for the back to school season with a printable to-do list full of fall colors, a great start to an organized school year!

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, give students a chance to watch a movie adaptation and compare the written and visual forms of the story.

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, encourage students to examine the novel's setting with this creative writing worksheet! 

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

Will Jelly ever fly again? Find out by putting the sentences in sequential order from beginning to end.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Learn about the legendary Flying Dutchman, a "ghost ship" said to warn sailors of trouble, and get some practice comparing descriptions of the same topic.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

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

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

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

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.