One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

Support critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the final chapters of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a poem or drama in this worksheet for middle school learners.

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Learn about the history of archery with a famous Olympian: Neroli Fairhall!

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Does your child know where their toys come from before they're in the toy store? Get your student ready to research with this fun worksheet and activity.

After completing Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, help learners connect with the book with this community-based extension activity! 

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

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

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

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

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

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

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