Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Engage readers with an exciting musical extension activity to be completed after they've finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry!

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

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

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.

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

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

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

Get into the spirit of Halloween with a spooky info page, all about zombies! Your child will learn the ways of the walking dead as he hones his reading skills.