Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Explore the most famous rock pile in the history of the world!

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Distinguish Between Facts and Opinions.

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

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

Pick up some fun movie trivia and learn about how special sound effects are made on this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What's the Moral?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives.

Learn about a scary condition called Old Hag Syndrome. Kids will respond to the reading with some comprehension questions.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 9–14 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water. 

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

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 12–15 and the epilogue of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

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