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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

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

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

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Let's Read It With Expression!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

For October (or just for kids who love scary stories!), here's a great telling of Bancho Sarayashiki, one of Japan's most famous ghost stories.

Hanako is a famous ghost story that originated in Japan. Your fifth grader will read about the legend, and then compare and contrast som

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Answering "Why" Questions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the Wilhelm scream! Read about the famous Wilhelm scream on this worksheet with a research assignment.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.

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

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring Character Motivation.

Read some fictional "eyewitness accounts" of the haunted London Underground, then write your own version of a ghost sighting!

You may not know of Dr. Jonas Salk, but your life has certainly been affected by him! This famous scientist created the polio vaccine.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Problem and Solution Practice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elections and Conditions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.