Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

After reading the last sections of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with these questions!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Select a topic that interests you, then learn about it from a variety of sources, such as books, websites, and articles.

The Underground Railroad aided thousands of enslaved Americans on the road to freedom. Students will learn about the leaders of this movement.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

What happens when you have a foolish friend? Introduce your stellar reader to the Panchatantra stories, animal fables with a moral lesson.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

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

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

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

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

This worksheet is a quick-reference tool of space vocabulary for kids, with an exercise to use the words properly in provided sentences.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.