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

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

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

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.

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

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

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

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

Read sentences from the Constitution to help your students find and understand conditional sentences.

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

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

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?

Constellation legends are full of adventure. These worksheets focus on the constellations Perseus, Andromeda, Queen Cassiopeia and the sea monster Cetus.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Learn about a scary condition called Old Hag Syndrome. Kids will respond to the reading with some comprehension questions.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

In this worksheet, students learn how the Sit-In movement began, and the impact it had on both the region and the country.

In this worksheet, children learn about the role art plays in the celebration and messaging of Earth Day, which begain in 1970 to heighten awarness of environmental crises around the world.

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

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