Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

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

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

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

Learn some interesting history about some of the oldest, and longest, roads in the U.S.! Your child will learn about a famous trade route to Mexico.

Students will learn about the sword maker Muramasa Sengo, read through the eyewitness accounts, and decide who the trustworthy source is!

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

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

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Point of View Pronouns.

Select a topic that interests you, then learn about it from a variety of sources, such as books, websites, and articles.

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

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

Use this reading guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about the final chapters of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

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.