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

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Learn more about Julia Morgan, the woman who designed her way into California history, and also practice reading informational paragraphs.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

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

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

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

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

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

A great way to introduce nonfiction to early readers, this Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz biography breaks down important information into readable passages.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Jane Goodall has devoted her life to studying animals in the wild. This worksheet should spark an interest in research and recording in kids who love animals.

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.