Learn about one of the most famous composers (and one of the first musicians to be known by only one name), Ludwig van Beethoven, in this biography of his life.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

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

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

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.

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Get ready for the back to school season with a printable to-do list full of fall colors, a great start to an organized school year!

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

This worksheet introduces students to Jesse Owens, whose successes in the 1938 Olympics made history and paved the way for African-Americans in all sports and fields.

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

Let's make some nonsense! Using "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, a poem famous for its otherworldly wacky words, your child makes his own nonsense.

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

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.

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

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