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

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

What do you in Ancient Greece when you have more money than you need? You build a giant tomb structure, of course!

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

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

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

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

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

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

Help your child understand why it's so important to take care of the environment with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the spectacled bear.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Read some dark excerpts from the famous forefathers of horror writing and try your hand at it.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

If you're looking for an exciting genre, then mystery might just be the one for you!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

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

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Language is fascinating and confusing! Learn some words in other languages that don't translate to English with this great linguistics worksheet.