Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

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

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

Do you believe in the Bermuda Triangle? Compare witness accounts of these weird waters and draw your own conclusions in this reading worksheet.

Children learn about Rosie the Riveter, a fictional character who would became a well-known symbol of the World War II war effort, in this social studies worksheet.

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire for 63 important years. Students can read about Victoria's life in this history worksheet.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that's because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Teach your child history, science and reading all at once with this short biography of Marie Curie, a scientist and the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize.

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

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!

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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: Scary Story Elements.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.