Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Read this creepy story about a mythological creature called a korrigan, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Have some fun with haiku! Practice syllable counting and creative writing by coming up with funny haiku poems for April Fools' Day.

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

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

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.

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Here is a writing activity to review terms and concepts from the Civil War era. Your child will imagine being a soldier in the war and write a journal entry.

Read about this dry, warm biome, then review what you've learned as you play a round or two of this fun-fact card game.

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

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

Learners work on their evidence-based reasoning skills in this engaging nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

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

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

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

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

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Learn about first Lady Dolley Madison with this history worksheet, complete with some reading comprehension exercises.

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