After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

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

Use this short story with comprehension questions to help your students practice identifying cause and effect relationships in a fictional text.

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

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

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.

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

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

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Your young historian will learn about the Iroquois League with this worksheet. He'll learn some important U.S. history as he practices his reading.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.