Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

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

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

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."

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

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

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

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

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

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

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

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

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

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing. Your little historian can learn about Florence's life in this biography worksheet.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.