These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

What if Peter Pan and Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" met? Your child gets to decide what happens next and write a story based on this fun coloring page scene!

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

This worksheet asks first graders to read, write and draw all about summer!

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Does an octopus have 8 tentacles? Test your fact and opinion identification skills with this colorful undersea adventure.

Discover more about the dingo, a type of wild dog that lives in Australia, in this worksheet.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

Show your child the benefits of making connections with the characters in a story with this introspective worksheet.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

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.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

This worksheet will have your child read a brief passage, and then decide on his favorite part.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.