Using this worksheet, students will focus on creating a personal timeline about their life.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool crab facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

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.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

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.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

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.

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

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool weedy seadragon facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool starfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Jane Goodall has devoted her life to studying animals in the wild. This worksheet should spark an interest in research and recording in kids who love animals.

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

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

Learn more about one of the most accomplished scientists of the 20th century with this worksheet about Stephen Hawking.

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

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

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.