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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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.

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Read clues and use problem-solving skills to figure out which child is dressed up in which Halloween costume.

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

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

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Read the poem, then draw a picture of each object that Old King Cole called for.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool catfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Get to know this towering wonder of the ancient world and discover the inspiration for its creation.

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point of view.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool saxophone facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Quotes with Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

Have your student read up on Jim Thorpe, an Olympian who is considered one of the greatest athletes of all time, and boost his reading skills at the same time.

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.