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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

Help your child understand why it's so important to take care of the environment with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the spectacled bear.

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

A soldier meets a mysterious stranger in a graveyard. Could this be the dark figure that townsfolk have seen darting in and out of the shadows?

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Read this version of The Wild Hunt with your little boy or ghoul this Halloween, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.