Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Kids can demonstrate their understanding of what they are reading with this printable bookmark.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Read about exciting early cinema like The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station! Find out how mundane topics entertained and even scared audiences.

Learn more about Julia Morgan, the woman who designed her way into California history, and also practice reading informational paragraphs.

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

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

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

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

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

Students will have some fun with reading eyewitness accounts of Roswell, and then doing some writing responses on the topic.

It's time to saddle up for the Olympics! Learn more about the equestrian events at the Olympics with this reading worksheet.

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

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

Learn more about this amazing artist in this printable biography when studying the fine arts or Black History Month.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Meet some legendary monsters with this fun match up activity. These mythical creatures all reflect a bit of the geography where they originated.

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

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

History buffs, get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know about all of our U.S. presidents with a fun matching game!