Get the best of the season, and write your own winter bucket list! This is a great exercise for helping kids set and keep goals.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

In this reading worksheet, just in time for Halloween, kids can read all about Fred Fisher, the star of Australia's most famous ghost story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

A soldier meets a mysterious stranger in a graveyard. Could this be the dark figure that townsfolk have seen darting in and out of the shadows?

If your students struggle with how to compare and contrast texts, this worksheet can be used for reteaching or extra practice.

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

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Point of View Pronouns.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

Select a topic that interests you, then learn about it from a variety of sources, such as books, websites, and articles.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Meet Harriet Tubman, a true American hero who devoted her whole life to caring for and protecting others.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

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

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Get an interesting lesson in science along with valuable reading practice with this Gregor Mendel biography worksheet.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Get caught up in the drama of "Casey at the Bat" with this reader's theater script.

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.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.