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

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

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.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

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

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire for 63 important years. Students can read about Victoria's life in this history worksheet.

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

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

While the Americans lost the Battle of Guilford Court House, the aftermath led to the American victory at Yorktown. Learn more with this history worksheet.

Read some dark excerpts from the famous forefathers of horror writing and try your hand at it.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

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

After reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help learners make connections between the book and their community with this engaging extension activity.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Use this worksheet to help students make a prediction about a characters’ actions.