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

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

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

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Your kid may have seen the movie, but has he ever read the story of Rapunzel? Here, the story of Rapunzel is told in its entirety with two different endings.

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

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

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

Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire for 63 important years. Students can read about Victoria's life in this history worksheet.

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

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

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

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

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

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

Learn more about legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this nonfiction reading sheet from our Jewish-American Heroes series.

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

Learn more about one of the most accomplished scientists of the 20th century with this worksheet about Stephen Hawking.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

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