As students begin to read independently, they may have questions about what they read. These questions should be encouraged! Have students record their questions about their reading or any unknown words on this graphic organizer.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

As students read independently, they’ll run into words they have trouble decoding. Have your kids cut out these fun “tricky word” bookmarks to help them to recognize and record these words so that they can practice decoding them!

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop by picking books to read independently. Students will choose three books that look appealing and read one page. If there are five or less words that are tricky to read, they've found a book that is just right!

Use this worksheet to help students make a prediction about a characters’ actions.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

Meet Harriet Tubman, a true American hero who devoted her whole life to caring for and protecting others.

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

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Use this simple and effective graphic organizer to have students predict or describe events from their own lives or from stories.

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Draw a picture of the beginning, middle, and end of this well-loved poem.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

This old Native American myth, The Raven Steals the Light, is the perfect story to spook -- but not scare -- kids this Halloween.

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

Add some fun to the old-fashioned placeholder with this bookmark! Your child answers a few questions and makes the bookmark, and the experience, all her own!

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Submerge yourself in the fascinating history of submarines! Your little inventor will get a taste of the early stages of this important technology.

Did you know that Queen Isabella of Spain paid for Columbus' expedition to the New World? Read more about this interesting woman in history.