Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Students can use this open ended worksheet to practice making predictions using complete sentences.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

This graphic organizer gives students the opportunity to analyze the extent to which a filmed production of a story stays faithful to or departs from the related text.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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.

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, readers reflect on the theme of individuality vs. conformity in this fun post-reading activity. 

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Learners will use their powers of deduction to determine what happens next in this playful sequencing worksheet.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Frederick Douglass, an influential African American writer and abolitionist.

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

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.