Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

The more students read about a topic, the more they’ll become experts! Help kids embrace their expert status by having them recommend books to friends. They'll write a letter recommending at least two different books, sharing what makes each unique.

A fun game for students, book bingo can either be played as a game to diversify student reading or as a way to have students begin interacting and talking about the types of reading materials they enjoy.

Read page 10 of The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen, and find out what will happen to the Emperor!

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

This open-ended worksheet helps second graders form predictions about books before they read them.

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

As students read multiple nonfiction books about a topic, they’ll begin to learn more. Help them organize their notes and keep track of the new information they're learning with this fun book-themed graphic organizer!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Find out what happens next with page 5 of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Your kid may have seen the movie, but has he ever read the story of Rapunzel? Here, the story of Rapunzel is told in its entirety with two different endings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Students will have some fun with reading eyewitness accounts of Roswell, and then doing some writing responses on the topic.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

Mary Lou Retton tumbled into America's heart in the 1988 Olympics. Read about her Olympic victories in this worksheet, then complete a short reading exercise.

Get straight to the point with this worksheet about fencing, one of the lesser-known Olympic sports.

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.