After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

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

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

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

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

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

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

About 14 million people visit the historic city of Berlin each year. Give your students the opportunity to study and share historic facts and places in Germany's capital with this brochure exercise.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Language is fascinating and confusing! Learn some words in other languages that don't translate to English with this great linguistics worksheet.

Celebrating the New Year is all about tradition, and it's different in every culture! Many common traditions are actually based on superstition.

Explore the most famous rock pile in the history of the world!

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

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

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

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: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences with Sentence Stems.