Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Support critical thinking and literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief.

Young readers can discover the history of the Choctaw Native American tribe with this history worksheet.

Dive into the fascinating world of seahorses in this watery worksheet! 

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they distinguish their own viewpoint from those of characters in a fiction text.

Ride along with the Lakota tribe with this history worksheet. These Native Americans were part of the horse culture of the Dakotas.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Children learn about the history and legacy of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns formed after the passage of the 13th Amendment.

Learn about one of the most famous composers (and one of the first musicians to be known by only one name), Ludwig van Beethoven, in this biography of his life.