For October (or just for kids who love scary stories!), here's a great telling of Bancho Sarayashiki, one of Japan's most famous ghost stories.

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Use this play planner to give your students a head start on writing their own play!

As students become independent readers, they may have questions about what they read. Instead of taking the questions as they come up, encourage students to write them down using this handy worksheet.

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Students will practice their reading fluency while also searching for all of the letter S’s!

Have your third grader practice their reading fluency with this passage about Autumn.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Enjoy part four of this five-part series of the Russian folk tale, Teremok! Your child will get to color and build her reading skills.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

Annie Oakley was the superstar of the wild west! Learn more about this Ohio sharpshooter with this worksheet on famous women in history.

In part two of "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader finds the shoemaker surprised to see fancy and freshly-made shoes in his workshop.

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

A great way to introduce nonfiction to early readers, this Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz biography breaks down important information into readable passages.

Located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. the Lincoln Memorial honors our 16th president.

In "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader meets a friendly shoemaker. This Grimm's fairy tale is told through colorable pictures and kid-friendly text.

This is the third part in the classic Grimm's fairy tale, "The Elves and the Shoemaker." Share this story with your child during the holidays.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

Learn to extract information from sources with this handy worksheet, perfect for Little Leaguers and baseball fans.

This worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, helps refine knowledge manners that change from culture to culture.

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.