Learn about these surprisingly diverse biomes, then test your biome and geography know-how with a desert-mapping activity.

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Students will use content-specific vocabulary in context as they learn about the Revolutionary War.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

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.

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

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

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

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

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

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

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

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

If the zombie outbreak happens, will you be prepared? Help your child familiarize with disaster preparedness through the lens of a zompocalypse!

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.