Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

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

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.

Learners are transported to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world as they learn about the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Ancient Egypt.

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

Learn more about legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this nonfiction reading sheet from our Jewish-American Heroes series.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Even if you're not in Japan, you can celebrate Kodomo no Hi, or Children's Day. Read all about this popular Japanese holiday, like the special foods and toys!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Reading Fluently.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

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!

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Meet some legendary monsters with this fun match up activity. These mythical creatures all reflect a bit of the geography where they originated.

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

Learn about one of the most famous composers (and one of the first musicians to be known by only one name), Ludwig van Beethoven, in this biography of his life.

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Got time to rhyme? Check out this fun rhyme scheme worksheet with two laughable limericks.

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

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

This old Native American myth, The Raven Steals the Light, is the perfect story to spook -- but not scare -- kids this Halloween.

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

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