Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

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

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

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

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

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

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Students will answer questions about a nonfiction text and find quotes to support their answers.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

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

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

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

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

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

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Frantic flamingos frequently flounder! Fill in the blanks of this alliteration worksheet to make a funny story, featuring the letter "F".

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.