Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

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

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

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.

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

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

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

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.

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

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

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.

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

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

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

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