Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

Learn about famous nonfiction writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Jack London in this fun worksheet, then try writing some nonfiction yourself.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Distinguish Between Facts and Opinions.

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

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: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

For October (or just for kids who love scary stories!), here's a great telling of Bancho Sarayashiki, one of Japan's most famous ghost stories.

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

As you continue with page 7 of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, be sure to color in the illustration as you read!

Help your child understand why it's so important to take care of the environment with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the spectacled bear.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

This Rapunzel story is missing some picturesâand in the wrong order! Test reading comprehension skills by arranging the events in the most logical order.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Kids will read about the Menehune legend and answer questions about it afterwards.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

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

Love is in the air this Valentine's Day! Give your young writer a chance to practice her descriptive writing with a creative writing prompt for the holiday.

For those who prefer their fairy tales cheery all the way, here's an alternate ending to Rapunzel that's sure to please. Compare and contrast the two endings!

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

They don't make gardens like this anymore. More a combinaton amusement park and treasure trove, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the spot to visit.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.