Does your kid know that movies used to be silent and black and white? Learn a bit about the history of early cinema with this reading comprehension worksheet.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Read some fictional "eyewitness accounts" of the haunted London Underground, then write your own version of a ghost sighting!

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

As your students read the nonfiction text in this travel brochure activity, they will learn about the many cultures that have enriched the diverse city of Lisbon.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

What happens when you have a foolish friend? Introduce your stellar reader to the Panchatantra stories, animal fables with a moral lesson.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

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

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

You may not know of Dr. Jonas Salk, but your life has certainly been affected by him! This famous scientist created the polio vaccine.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

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

The silent film era featured creative storytelling techniques like miming and slapstick. Read and write about silent film era classics like Charlie Chaplin.