Learners are transported to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world as they learn about the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Ancient Egypt.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Kids can demonstrate their understanding of what they are reading with this printable bookmark.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

In this reading worksheet, just in time for Halloween, kids can read all about Fred Fisher, the star of Australia's most famous ghost story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

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

There are lots of stories around the world for the rabbit moon: a rabbit image seen in the shadows on the moon's face. Here's one for young moon-gazers!

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

Get to know this towering wonder of the ancient world and discover the inspiration for its creation.

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.

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.