Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

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

Review Civil War key terms and people with this history sheet. Your child will decide which terms describe the Confederacy and which describe the Union.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

Your young student will step back in time with this worksheet on the Ming Dynasty. He'll build comprehension skills as he learns some ancient history.

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.

The Underground Railroad aided thousands of enslaved Americans on the road to freedom. Students will learn about the leaders of this movement.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to use information from multiple sources about coral reefs.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

What happens when you have a foolish friend? Introduce your stellar reader to the Panchatantra stories, animal fables with a moral lesson.

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.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

In this nonfiction biography, learn how Nikola Tesla invented key technologies that are still used today.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “receive” a memory with this engaging extension activity!

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.