Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Kids will first read the story about Alice and her dog Bobo, then write her own middle and ending to the story.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

This Mary Had a Little Lamb coloring page depicts a heartwarming scene from the famous nursery rhyme.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Children sing or read along to a familiar poem as they circle each letter U in this letter recognition worksheet.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Read the poem, then draw a picture about the story of Old Mother Hubbard.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

This worksheet gives kids a place to list all the books they've read!

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.

Is it a tiger or a shark? Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, sure to satisfy any shark fanatic!

This printable booklet is a great way to help children learn facts about Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Each nine-page worksheet produces two half-page booklets.

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Your young historian will learn about the Iroquois League with this worksheet. He'll learn some important U.S. history as he practices his reading.

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

Your students will get to practice their writing and oral reading skills while learning more about their classmates with this fun questionnaire.

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Pictures to Read Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.