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: Discovering Character Traits.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

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

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

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, students explore the part boycotts have played in the country’s history.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elections and Conditions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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.

Learn about the legendary Flying Dutchman, a "ghost ship" said to warn sailors of trouble, and get some practice comparing descriptions of the same topic.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Comparing different stories is a great way to help your young reader get started with analyzing texts. She'll compare and contrast two children's favorites.

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

This worksheet features writing prompts to help your kid think analytically about the story of Bridge to Terabithia and get the most out of the book and movie.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

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

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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

Special effects in movies have been around almost as long as movies themselves. These worksheets introduce kids to the early filmmaker, Georges Méliès.

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.