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

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

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

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

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

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

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

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

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.

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.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing. Your little historian can learn about Florence's life in this biography worksheet.

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

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.