Use this worksheet to learn Cassowary facts, and introduce your child to an exotic species of bird from Down Under.

Color the nightingale in honor of the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Similarities.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Internal & External Character Traits.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

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

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: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Focus on the Similarities.

Give your wild child this werewolf story to read this Halloween. He'll have a spooky story to share with friends, and get some reading practice, too!

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Read this version of The Wild Hunt with your little boy or ghoul this Halloween, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.