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

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

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

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

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.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

Learn more about legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this nonfiction reading sheet from our Jewish-American Heroes series.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

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

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

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

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