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

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Learn all about Galileo! Whether your kid is an aspiring scientist or just needs some reading practice, this Galileo biography worksheet hits the mark!

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Hanako is a famous ghost story that originated in Japan. Your fifth grader will read about the legend, and then compare and contrast som

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for chapter 5–8 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

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. 

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

Get ready for a ghostly reading activity! Here's a Halloween sheet that will teach your child all about ghosts and the history behind these spooks.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

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

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book with this thoughtful extension activity! 

History buffs, get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know about all of our U.S. presidents with a fun matching game!