Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 12–15 and the epilogue of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

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

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

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 completing Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, help learners connect with the book with this community-based extension activity! 

Use this guide to promote in-depth discussion after students have finished reading chapters 10–13 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, give students a chance to watch a movie adaptation and compare the written and visual forms of the story.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

Our worksheet gives your Hobbit fan space to jot down similarities and differences between the book and film for a great exercise in comparing and contrasting.

This passage sheds light to the powerful women's workforce in World War 2. After reading the passage, students will use their critical thinking stills to answer comprehension questions.

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students take inspiration from the main character as they rename people and places in their lives.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Internal & External Character Traits.

Does your kid know that movies used to be silent and black and white? Learn a bit about the history of early cinema with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions.

Read about six epic April Fools' Day hoaxes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

Read some fictional "eyewitness accounts" of the haunted London Underground, then write your own version of a ghost sighting!

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

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.

Read the eyewitness accounts of sightings at Russell Hotel, then do some comparing and contrasting using the Venn diagram at the bottom.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

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.

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 9–18 of Anne of Green Gables.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.