Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

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.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

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

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

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

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

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

Ever wonder about those mysterious crop circles that show up in fields across the world? Engage in a fun conversation about this interesting type of geoglyph.

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.