Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Learn more about Julia Morgan, the woman who designed her way into California history, and also practice reading informational paragraphs.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read chapters 5-8 of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

The silent film era featured creative storytelling techniques like miming and slapstick. Read and write about silent film era classics like Charlie Chaplin.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring Character Motivation.

Use these picture cards to introduce your students to 16 common theme words.

Students will have some fun with reading eyewitness accounts of Roswell, and then doing some writing responses on the topic.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

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

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Learn about a scary condition called Old Hag Syndrome. Kids will respond to the reading with some comprehension questions.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, students explore the part boycotts have played in the country’s history.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elections and Conditions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Comparing different stories is a great way to help your young reader get started with analyzing texts. She'll compare and contrast two children's favorites.

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

This worksheet features writing prompts to help your kid think analytically about the story of Bridge to Terabithia and get the most out of the book and movie.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

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