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Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Before reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, use this pre-reading activity to build background knowledge and engagement. 

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by building background knowledge about the rise of Hitler in Germany after World War I.

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Write a Christmas wish list with this template, waiting to be sent off to Santa! Your little one can even practice handwriting and building sentences.

Get excited about the holiday season, and get your little ones to send off their Christmas wishes to the North Pole, with a "Dear Santa" template letter!

Christmas is around the corner, and kids sure have a lot to ask from Santa! Here is a printable template to help your child send his Christmas wishes.

Help Santa out by making him a wish list. Have your child fill-in the blanks with this Santa letter template, and send the letter off to the North Pole!

Help your kindergartener craft the perfect letter to Santa with this great template! He can work on handwriting, and even learn a few new sight words.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: activating prior knowledge.

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

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

Prepare students for reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor by accessing and building background knowledge!

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Here is a great holiday activity for you and your little one. He can practice his handwriting and writing addresses for these home-made Christmas cards.

This candy cane stationery will surely get your child in the Christmas mood. He can use this letter page to write to Santa or to family members.

Is your child excited to write his letter to Santa? Here is a printable letter page, where he can write his Christmas wishes, and then color a picture!

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.