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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

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

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Internal & External Character Traits.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

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

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

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

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

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

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

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

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.