Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

Show your child the benefits of making connections with the characters in a story with this introspective worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Connections with Our Feelings.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

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

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Does an octopus have 8 tentacles? Test your fact and opinion identification skills with this colorful undersea adventure.

Get writing going with your own Three Billy Goats Gruff sequencing and writing worksheets.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Read about the Wampus Cat, a famous Tennessee legend. Test comprehension as your child reads about some of the sightings.