Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

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

Record the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of winter! This winter writing prompt challenges your child to practice sensory description.

Finish each sentence by selecting between the correct and bogus abbreviation provided.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

How many ways can you start a story? Have fun with writing, and practice telling the beginning of a story in six different ways.

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

If your students need practice identifying the roots and affixes of a word to decode the meaning, then this worksheet is for you!

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Help your child understand the importance of preserving the environment, with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the Iranian jerboa.

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Enlighten the holiday spirit in your beginning writer, and have her respond to this Christmas writing prompt about the holiday colors.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

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

Use this survey to help students think about their opinions and reasoning for eight high-interest prompts.

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

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

Imagine you spent a day in the life of a snowflake. What winter wonders would you see? Have some fun with this creative writing prompt.

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.