Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

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

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

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

Learn more about FDR and his influence on the country in this biography worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths. Check out a little bit of kappa myth with this coloring page.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

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

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Our silkworm facts help your little one understand more about these special invertebrates. He'll read about their life stages and answer some questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Read more about the Florida Skunk Ape and one of the most famous encounter stories. Then, use your imagination to write a letter about the encounter.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

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

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

Meet one of the most well-known Native American women in our country's history--Sacagawea!

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

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.

If your clever learner loves tangram puzzles, here's a fun worksheet to teach him the history behind the puzzle!

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Distinguish Between Facts and Opinions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.