Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

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

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

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

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

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Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.