This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: activating prior knowledge.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!