Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.

Thanksgiving readers theater is fun for the whole family. This Thanksgiving readers theater activity tells the true story of the first Thanksgiving.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

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

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

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.

Does your kid know that movies used to be silent and black and white? Learn a bit about the history of early cinema with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Your young student will step back in time with this worksheet on the Ming Dynasty. He'll build comprehension skills as he learns some ancient history.

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

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.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Learn some interesting history about some of the oldest, and longest, roads in the U.S.! Your child will learn about a famous trade route to Mexico.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

After finishing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers reflect on the major elements of the story with these writing prompts.

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

List your favorite movies that came out this summer, then write your very own reviews of the best—and maybe the worst!—of the bunch.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Use this discussion guide to engage learners in meaningful dialogue after they've read chapters 14–18 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.