Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

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.

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

Young readers can discover the history of the Choctaw Native American tribe with this history worksheet.

Dive into the fascinating world of seahorses in this watery worksheet! 

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they distinguish their own viewpoint from those of characters in a fiction text.

Ride along with the Lakota tribe with this history worksheet. These Native Americans were part of the horse culture of the Dakotas.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!