These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

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

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

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.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

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.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

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

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

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

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

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.