For October (or just for kids who love scary stories!), here's a great telling of Bancho Sarayashiki, one of Japan's most famous ghost stories.

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

As you continue with page 7 of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, be sure to color in the illustration as you read!

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Help your child understand why it's so important to take care of the environment with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the spectacled bear.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

This Rapunzel story is missing some picturesâand in the wrong order! Test reading comprehension skills by arranging the events in the most logical order.

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.

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

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

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

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

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.

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

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

For those who prefer their fairy tales cheery all the way, here's an alternate ending to Rapunzel that's sure to please. Compare and contrast the two endings!

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

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

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

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Use this exercise with your students as they work through the realms of realism and fantasy.