Are socks or worms inanimate objects? This science worksheet helps kids think critically about things they might see on a hike or a walk on the beach.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

This mix-and-match lists examples of natural resources. Kids can connect the natural resource with the resulting product.

Take a dive into science fiction writing with the grandfather of sci-fi: Jules Verne! Create a "collage" passage with text from authors who influenced Verne.

Read the famous quote by Gandhi, then write a short paragraph about the change you would like to be.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

This activity will have your students reading short paragraphs to identify prepositional phrases, and then using this knowledge to answer questions about the text.

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

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

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Students will read an excerpt from The Hound of the Baskervilles to discover the great mystery of Baskerville Hall, answering “Stop and Think” fiction comprehension questions throughout the text.

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.