Use this worksheet to learn Cassowary facts, and introduce your child to an exotic species of bird from Down Under.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Color the nightingale in honor of the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

You may not know of Dr. Jonas Salk, but your life has certainly been affected by him! This famous scientist created the polio vaccine.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Read page six from The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Read about the nightingale's life in the palace, and color in the illustration.

Continue the illustrated story of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Read this final page of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Be sure to color in the illustration to complete the story!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Quotes with Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

In page two of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, the reader sees the nightingale singing in the palace gardens. Read and color this worksheet.

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Read page 10 of The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen, and find out what will happen to the Emperor!

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

Here is the ending to the Grimm brothers' version of Rapunzel, adapted for kids! Compare and contrast this ending with the sunnier alternate conclusion.

Continue with page 9 of the illustrated story of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.