During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

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

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.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Here is a writing activity to review terms and concepts from the Civil War era. Your child will imagine being a soldier in the war and write a journal entry.

Read about this dry, warm biome, then review what you've learned as you play a round or two of this fun-fact card game.

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

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