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

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

Help your first grader learn about the different parts of a letter and the lost art of letter writing with this simple how-to worksheet.

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!

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!

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

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

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.

Although most people communicate through the internet these days, writing a letter is an important skill to know!

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.

This snowman stationery is a great template for your child to write his letter to Santa! Plus, it's lined to help your child work on his handwriting skills.

Ling, a young girl from China, has sent your child a letter. Using the letter outline, encourage her to write a letter back to Ling about her life and dreams.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

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.

What would you say to a dog if that dog could talk? PBS KIDS' Martha Speaks can do just that, and you can writer her a letter!

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

Your child can practice writing a letter and learn some good manners with this cute, do-it-yourself birthday card.

E-mail is here to stay, but that doesn't mean kids shouldn't learn how to write a friendly letter.Teach your child how to write a letter to a friend.

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.

Although kids these days have never heard of snail mail, writing letters is a very important skill to have! This worksheet will show you how, step-by-step.

In this assessment worksheet, students demonstrate their knowledge of sequencing events.

Help kids get familiar with the process of writing a thank you note, so they'll never complain about writer's block again.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Challenge your student's knowledge of the U.S. presidents with this series of match-up games.

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.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.