"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Get to know one of the most unique and colorful monkeys, the red-shanked douc langur. Read about why they are an endangered species with this info-sheet.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

See reading in a new light in this snowy fantasy story!

Build third and fourth graders’ reading fluency with this short story!