Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

Give your wild child this werewolf story to read this Halloween. He'll have a spooky story to share with friends, and get some reading practice, too!

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Read this version of The Wild Hunt with your little boy or ghoul this Halloween, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

A soldier meets a mysterious stranger in a graveyard. Could this be the dark figure that townsfolk have seen darting in and out of the shadows?

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: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

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

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

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

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

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

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

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

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

Who’s voice is MISSING from the nonfiction text? Use this exercise with your students to analyze missing perspectives in informational text.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.