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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

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

Help your child understand why it's so important to take care of the environment with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the spectacled bear.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

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.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

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

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

They don't make gardens like this anymore. More a combinaton amusement park and treasure trove, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the spot to visit.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.