Ever wonder why we hunt for Easter eggs? Discover how this spring holiday was started with this interesting look at the history of Easter.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

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

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

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

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

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.

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

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

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

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

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

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

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

This passage sheds light to the powerful women's workforce in World War 2. After reading the passage, students will use their critical thinking stills to answer comprehension questions.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

In this reading worksheet, just in time for Halloween, kids can read all about Fred Fisher, the star of Australia's most famous ghost story.

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

Help your child understand the importance of preserving the environment, with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the Iranian jerboa.

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.