Hanako is a famous ghost story that originated in Japan. Your fifth grader will read about the legend, and then compare and contrast som

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for chapter 5–8 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Support critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the final chapters of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Get ready for a ghostly reading activity! Here's a Halloween sheet that will teach your child all about ghosts and the history behind these spooks.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book with this thoughtful extension activity! 

History buffs, get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know about all of our U.S. presidents with a fun matching game!

Challenge your student's knowledge of the U.S. presidents with this series of match-up games.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 5–9 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! 

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

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

Use this final discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapter 15 through the end of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Children learn about Rosie the Riveter, a fictional character who would became a well-known symbol of the World War II war effort, in this social studies worksheet.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.