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.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

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.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

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

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

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!

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

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

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

In this activity, your child will get the chance to adapt a favorite book for the stage or screen.

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

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

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

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

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

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

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.

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.

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

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

The silent film era featured creative storytelling techniques like miming and slapstick. Read and write about silent film era classics like Charlie Chaplin.

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

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.