Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first chapters of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Get the best of the season, and write your own winter bucket list! This is a great exercise for helping kids set and keep goals.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

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

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

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

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “receive” a memory with this engaging extension activity!

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Frantic flamingos frequently flounder! Fill in the blanks of this alliteration worksheet to make a funny story, featuring the letter "F".

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for chapter 5–8 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.