Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

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

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.

Students will answer questions about a nonfiction text and find quotes to support their answers.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

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

This Frankenstein worksheet is great for teaching kids about classic literature near Halloween. Use this Frankenstein worksheet with your child this October.

Your child will learn about the history of music and the history of segregation in America with this Motown worksheet.

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

This printable memory match game is a fun way to learn about five movie inventors and their innovations. See if you can match the inventor with his invention!

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.

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

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

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

Learn some interesting history about some of the oldest, and longest, roads in the U.S.! Your child will learn about a famous trade route to Mexico.

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