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.

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.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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.

When students finish reading Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire, help them think about cause and effect with this graphic organizer!

Even if you're not in Japan, you can celebrate Kodomo no Hi, or Children's Day. Read all about this popular Japanese holiday, like the special foods and toys!

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.)

Our writing worksheet guides your budding film buff as he explores theme and character development in the movie Ender's Game.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

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.

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

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!