Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Sail away to the exotic and mysterious Easter Island!

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

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

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

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

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

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.

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

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.

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

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

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

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

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

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.