Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

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

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

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: Comparing Literature Themes.

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

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.

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

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

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

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

You may not know of Dr. Jonas Salk, but your life has certainly been affected by him! This famous scientist created the polio vaccine.

Get to know one of the most unique and colorful monkeys, the red-shanked douc langur. Read about why they are an endangered species with this info-sheet.

Did you know that Queen Isabella of Spain paid for Columbus' expedition to the New World? Read more about this interesting woman in history.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.