Teach your child history, science and reading all at once with this short biography of Marie Curie, a scientist and the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Take a historical tour of Spain, home of the Running of the Bulls! Learn all about this Spanish-speaking country's diverse regions, dialects, and traditions.

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

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

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

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

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

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

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

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.

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

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

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.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

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

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

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