Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

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

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

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

List your favorite movies that came out this summer, then write your very own reviews of the best—and maybe the worst!—of the bunch.

Read about exciting early cinema like The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station! Find out how mundane topics entertained and even scared audiences.

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Keep a record of friends you meet over the summer with this impromptu address book to fill with fun facts about all the friends you make this summer.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

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

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Get the best of the season, and write your own winter bucket list! This is a great exercise for helping kids set and keep goals.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Quotes with Introductory Phrases.

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

For those who prefer their fairy tales cheery all the way, here's an alternate ending to Rapunzel that's sure to please. Compare and contrast the two endings!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

Our worksheet gives your Hobbit fan space to jot down similarities and differences between the book and film for a great exercise in comparing and contrasting.

Is your child having trouble navigating the rough waters of reading? Hand her this worksheet about some Olympic events: canoeing and kayaking.

Ever wonder about those mysterious crop circles that show up in fields across the world? Engage in a fun conversation about this interesting type of geoglyph.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.