Families in the United States live in all different settings. Kids think about the similarities and differences between rural and urban life on this worksheet.

Learn about a few common insects and arachnids as you color them in!

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!

Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

After reading the classic Aesop fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare," students will use their imaginations to compose their own introductions using one of the most common story hooks (fact, question, description, statement, or sound).

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

There's more than one way to hook a reader! Help your students reinforce their understanding of captivating story starters with this Goldilocks-themed matching worksheet.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Hop into a habitat and learn all about the environment and things that live there!

Review and record the elements of a story in this first- and second-grade worksheet!

Two of these sentences are not like the others! Students will identify and remove extraneous ideas to revise a paragraph about raccoons and then rewrite their new and improved text.

Children practice identifying and writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion in this narrative writing worksheet.

This worksheet walks second and third graders through the steps of planning and writing a persuasive paragraph, from selecting a topic to forming an opinion and providing reasoning for their opinion.

Spark your student's imagination with this fun and creative writing prompt which focuses on summer, and get more summer writing ideas.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Plants are resources used in everything from food, to clothes, and for making other products. Writing and research come together for this basic worksheet.

No more abrupt “The End”s! Students will organize and reflect on their narrative’s problem and solution as they work toward a strong ending.

Students can start a personal narrative with a clear problem and solution by using this activity to organize their story. This handy graphic organizer will have students consider various aspects of their problem and solution, and how it made them feel.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

What if Paul Bunyan stepped into the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story? Make writing practice creative and fun for your child with a coloring page story starter.

Here's a great activity to get your second grader's mind going and creativity in action! He'll write a story to go with the picture and even get to color too.