Ever wonder why we hunt for Easter eggs? Discover how this spring holiday was started with this interesting look at the history of Easter.

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

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

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

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

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.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Students will sort out sentences that reflect facts and opinions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

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

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

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

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

After finishing Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, choose one of Mrs Who's quotes to research, reflect on, and design a bumper sticker around.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

This passage sheds light to the powerful women's workforce in World War 2. After reading the passage, students will use their critical thinking stills to answer comprehension questions.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Early in the American Revolution, the Patriots captured Fort Ticonderoga. Your young historian will learn the importance of this fort in this worksheet.

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

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

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

A great way to introduce nonfiction to early readers, this Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz biography breaks down important information into readable passages.