Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

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.

Thanksgiving readers theater is fun for the whole family. This Thanksgiving readers theater activity tells the true story of the first Thanksgiving.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

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

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

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

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

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

Read about this dry, warm biome, then review what you've learned as you play a round or two of this fun-fact card game.

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: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Learn more about one of the most accomplished scientists of the 20th century with this worksheet about Stephen Hawking.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.