This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

Got a curious kid at home? Help him discover more about the kangaroo, the national animal of Australia and a favorite of zoo-goers everywhere.

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

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

Learn all about legendary magician Harry Houdini in this nonfiction reading worksheet.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

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

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Meet one of the most well-known Native American women in our country's history--Sacagawea!

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

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.

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

Early in the American Revolution, the Patriots captured Fort Ticonderoga. Your young historian will learn the importance of this fort in this worksheet.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Symbolism in A Christmas Carol helps bring out the story's holiday messages. Learn about symbolism in A Christmas Carol with this worksheet.