After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Take flight with this ode to inventors! See the history of the helicopter, from its conception in ancient China to the modern vehicle it is today.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first chapters of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that's because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

Early in the American Revolution, the Patriots captured Fort Ticonderoga. Your young historian will learn the importance of this fort in this worksheet.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Help your students take organized notes on a book, lesson, or video with this helpful worksheet. Kids will record facts they already know, what they learn, and questions they still have. Then they can paste their notes in their composition notebook.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.