During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

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

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

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

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

Your child can learn about the last manned space flight with this worksheet that works on history, reading comprenshion and science all in one.

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

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, give students a chance to nurture their imaginations with this creative extension activity!

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

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

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, reflect on T.J. Avery’s decisions and consequences with this extension activity.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for chapter 5–8 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

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

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

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Read the eyewitness accounts of sightings at Russell Hotel, then do some comparing and contrasting using the Venn diagram at the bottom.