Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

After reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, students compare the movie adaptation to the written story.

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

The Battle of Camden was a low point for the American forces in the Revolutionary War. Discover the errors made at the battle in this worksheet.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

Kids research the constitutional amendments that were added after the Bill of Rights with this cool worksheet.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

Constellation legends are full of adventure. These worksheets focus on the constellations Perseus, Andromeda, Queen Cassiopeia and the sea monster Cetus.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

There are many endangered species all around the world. Read about the Amur leopard and why it's endangered with this information page.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.