Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

If your students struggle with how to compare and contrast texts, this worksheet can be used for reteaching or extra practice.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

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

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

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

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Learn more about this amazing artist in this printable biography when studying the fine arts or Black History Month.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

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

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

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.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.