Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

These worksheets, which cover social studies, reading comprehension and writing, teach kids all about the Great Race of Mercy.

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

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

What do you in Ancient Greece when you have more money than you need? You build a giant tomb structure, of course!

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

In this fun worksheet, read all about the Vodnici and then answer some critical thinking questions about the eyewitness accounts.

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparative and Superlative.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!