Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Children learn about the history of the cycling event, one of the oldest sports in modern Olympic Games history.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

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

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

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

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.

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

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

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!

Travel back in time to discover the Cheyenne tribe. Young readers will learn all about Native American history with this worksheet.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Use this short story with comprehension questions to help your students practice identifying cause and effect relationships in a fictional text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.