Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

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.

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

Use this exercise to give your students practice developing an opinion about a nonfiction topic. They will read a short passage and express an opinion about the topic based on the evidence in the text.

If your kid is crazy for castles and knights, have her read Eleanor's biography in this worksheet. Enhance her reading skills with a short comprehension quiz.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool piano facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Calling all chefs! This menu needs a new sandwich item. Can you come up with a delicious and innovative concoction?

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

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

This great brain teaser challenges your child to unscramble president names and a riddle. It's a fun Presidents Day worksheet featuring Mount Rushmore!

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Reading Fluently.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Young historians get to know the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, with this history and civics crossword puzzle.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.