Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

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

Get to know one of the most unique and colorful monkeys, the red-shanked douc langur. Read about why they are an endangered species with this info-sheet.

Did you know that Queen Isabella of Spain paid for Columbus' expedition to the New World? Read more about this interesting woman in history.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

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

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Challenge your student's knowledge of the U.S. presidents with this series of match-up games.

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

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

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

Thanksgiving readers theater is fun for the whole family. This Thanksgiving readers theater activity tells the true story of the first Thanksgiving.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

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

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.