Hanako is a famous ghost story that originated in Japan. Your fifth grader will read about the legend, and then compare and contrast som

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read chapters 5-8 of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

Color the nightingale in honor of the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

Does your child know where their toys come from before they're in the toy store? Get your student ready to research with this fun worksheet and activity.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Does your kid know that movies used to be silent and black and white? Learn a bit about the history of early cinema with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Problem and Solution Practice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Distinguish Between Facts and Opinions.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Answering "Why" Questions.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Learn about the legendary Flying Dutchman, a "ghost ship" said to warn sailors of trouble, and get some practice comparing descriptions of the same topic.

Get to know one of the most unique and colorful monkeys, the red-shanked douc langur. Read about why they are an endangered species with this info-sheet.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Close reading texts from mixed media puts a fun twist on the usual compare and contrast. This writing worksheet guides your kid in examining the story's climax.