Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

In this thoughtful culture and writing activity, children will read about each of the tenets of Kwanzaa, then reflect on what these mean to them.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Help kids get familiar with the process of writing a thank you note, so they'll never complain about writer's block again.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Explore the most famous rock pile in the history of the world!

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.

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.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Evidence.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Get ready for a ghostly reading activity! Here's a Halloween sheet that will teach your child all about ghosts and the history behind these spooks.

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Help your child understand why it's so important to take care of the environment with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the spectacled bear.

In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.

In this worksheet, children learn about the role art plays in the celebration and messaging of Earth Day, which begain in 1970 to heighten awarness of environmental crises around the world.

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.