n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, students explore the part boycotts have played in the country’s history.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 9–18 of Anne of Green Gables.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Your little learner can learn about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen as he hones his reading comprehension skills with this history worksheet.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

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. 

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

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building mini version of it!

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

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

This worksheet will have your students use codes to help them understand the meaning of the story.

Take flight with this ode to inventors! See the history of the helicopter, from its conception in ancient China to the modern vehicle it is today.

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

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.