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

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

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 discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

Learn about famous nonfiction writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Jack London in this fun worksheet, then try writing some nonfiction yourself.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

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

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

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

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Point of View Pronouns.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

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

Teach your child history, science and reading all at once with this short biography of Marie Curie, a scientist and the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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