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

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

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.

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.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool guitar facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

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.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool jellyfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

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.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool trumpet facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

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.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

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.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

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

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.