Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

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.

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Our writing worksheet guides your budding film buff as he explores theme and character development in the movie Ender's Game.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

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. 

Prepare students for reading A Night to Remember by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity.

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

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Get out those books, open the laptop, and research what Ramadan is all about. Your child can learn valuable research skills while learning about this holiday.

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

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

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 9–14 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water. 

Support critical thinking and literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Help students reflect on chapters 9–12 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.