Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

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.

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.

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

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.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Help your 2nd grader compare and contrast their own traits to their favorite book character's traits with this graphic organizer.

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

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

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.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Read about the Wampus Cat, a famous Tennessee legend. Test comprehension as your child reads about some of the sightings.

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

What would happen if Peter Pan invited Robin Hood to Neverland? A fun coloring page scene starts your young writer out!

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!

Got a curious kid at home? Help him discover more about the kangaroo, the national animal of Australia and a favorite of zoo-goers everywhere.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

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

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