Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

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

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that's because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

Children learn about writer and poet Langston Hughes in this Historical Heroes: Langston Hughes worksheet.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

History students can learn all the first modern first lady in this biography worksheet, and can develop their reading comprehension skills as well.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing. Your little historian can learn about Florence's life in this biography worksheet.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

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.

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

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

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

The Philadelphia Campaign was a year of battles with the Americans at Valley Forge. Students will hone reading skills and learn about the American Revolution.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

Located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. the Lincoln Memorial honors our 16th president.

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.