In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

In this worksheet, students learn how the Sit-In movement began, and the impact it had on both the region and the country.

Learn more about FDR and his influence on the country in this biography worksheet.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

Learn all about baseball history in this quick reading comprehension sheet that will get your kid up to speed on reading over spring break.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Use this short story with comprehension questions to help your students practice identifying cause and effect relationships in a fictional text.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

This worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, helps refine knowledge manners that change from culture to culture.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

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

Support critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the final chapters of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

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