Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Go on a reading adventure with Sinbad the Sailor, a hero of Middle Eastern myth and a great excuse to practice reading comprehension.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

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.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

Introduce young historians to Amelia Bloomer, an influential 19th century women's rights activist, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

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

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

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

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

Reading primary sources doesn't have to be a bore! Learn to gather information from records using data given by celebrity whom you just might know.

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