Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Learn more about legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this nonfiction reading sheet from our Jewish-American Heroes series.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

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

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

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 9–14 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water. 

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Meet some legendary monsters with this fun match up activity. These mythical creatures all reflect a bit of the geography where they originated.

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Prepare students for reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor by accessing and building background knowledge!

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, readers reflect on the theme of individuality vs. conformity in this fun post-reading activity. 

Got time to rhyme? Check out this fun rhyme scheme worksheet with two laughable limericks.

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by having them complete this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

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

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