Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Explore the sights and sounds of the prairie with this fourth- and fifth-grade reading-comprehension activity!

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

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!

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.

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.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

Read this passage about a rainy spring break to boost your character analysis skills!

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!