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

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

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.

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

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

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

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

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

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: Read with Expression!

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

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

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.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Get to know one of the most unique and colorful monkeys, the red-shanked douc langur. Read about why they are an endangered species with this info-sheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?