Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

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

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

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

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.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

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

List your favorite movies that came out this summer, then write your very own reviews of the best—and maybe the worst!—of the bunch.

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

Use this discussion guide to engage learners in meaningful dialogue after they've read chapters 14–18 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. 

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Point of View Pronouns.

Young historians get to know the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, with this history and civics crossword puzzle.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

Learn about the science behind one of nature's most awesome spectacles: monsoons.

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

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

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

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

Use this final discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapter 15 through the end of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

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