Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

Children learn about writer and poet Langston Hughes in this Historical Heroes: Langston Hughes worksheet.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Read, reflect, and uncover the lesson behind the story with this fourth- and fifth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.