This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Take flight with this ode to inventors! See the history of the helicopter, from its conception in ancient China to the modern vehicle it is today.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

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

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

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.

Early in the American Revolution, the Patriots captured Fort Ticonderoga. Your young historian will learn the importance of this fort in this worksheet.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Get to know Arlen in this reading comprehension worksheet,

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

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.

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

Learn some interesting history about some of the oldest, and longest, roads in the U.S.! Your child will learn about a famous trade route to Mexico.

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

There are lots of stories around the world for the rabbit moon: a rabbit image seen in the shadows on the moon's face. Here's one for young moon-gazers!

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

Get ready for a ghostly reading activity! Here's a Halloween sheet that will teach your child all about ghosts and the history behind these spooks.

Get to know this towering wonder of the ancient world and discover the inspiration for its creation.

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