This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

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

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

Learn about first Lady Dolley Madison with this history worksheet, complete with some reading comprehension exercises.

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

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths. Check out a little bit of kappa myth with this coloring page.

Read a classic Aesop's fable about the importance of honesty! Your child will get to practice punctuating this passage with periods.

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

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.

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.