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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Calling all chefs! This menu needs a new sandwich item. Can you come up with a delicious and innovative concoction?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Learn all about Galileo! Whether your kid is an aspiring scientist or just needs some reading practice, this Galileo biography worksheet hits the mark!

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

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

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Teach your child history, science and reading all at once with this short biography of Marie Curie, a scientist and the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize.

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Take a historical tour of Spain, home of the Running of the Bulls! Learn all about this Spanish-speaking country's diverse regions, dialects, and traditions.

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Sail away to the exotic and mysterious Easter Island!

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

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

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

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.