During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

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

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

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

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elections and Conditions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fact & Opinion Statements with Adjectives.

These worksheets are all about the 180-degree rule, an important film technique. If your kid loves movies, then she'll love this chance to go behind the scenes.

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

Learn about famous nonfiction writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Jack London in this fun worksheet, then try writing some nonfiction yourself.

Learn more about legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this nonfiction reading sheet from our Jewish-American Heroes series.

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.