Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

This prediction activity engages students in thinking about the skill of Ãpredictingà from a writerÃs point of view.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

It's time to find some rhymes! Help your budding poet learn to identify rhyme schemes in poetry with this worksheet.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

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

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Color in this cool scene at the White House, and learn a few White House facts too!

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

This worksheet introduces students to Jesse Owens, whose successes in the 1938 Olympics made history and paved the way for African-Americans in all sports and fields.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.