Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

This prediction activity engages students in thinking about the skill of Ãpredictingà from a writerÃs point of view.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

It's time to find some rhymes! Help your budding poet learn to identify rhyme schemes in poetry with this worksheet.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Take flight with this ode to inventors! See the history of the helicopter, from its conception in ancient China to the modern vehicle it is today.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Ever wonder why we hunt for Easter eggs? Discover how this spring holiday was started with this interesting look at the history of Easter.

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

This worksheet introduces students to Jesse Owens, whose successes in the 1938 Olympics made history and paved the way for African-Americans in all sports and fields.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."