Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

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.

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

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.

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

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

As your students read the nonfiction text in this travel brochure activity, they will learn about the many cultures that have enriched the diverse city of Lisbon.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

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.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

About 14 million people visit the historic city of Berlin each year. Give your students the opportunity to study and share historic facts and places in Germany's capital with this brochure exercise.

After reading a nonfiction text about the history, sights, and people of Vancouver, your student will create their own informational brochure about the city.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.