Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for chapter 5–8 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Point of View Pronouns.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Encourage critical thinking and support your students’ literacy development by asking questions as they read the final chapters of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

Liberty is precious to humans and to horses. Your young student can read about Beauty's longing for liberty in this worksheet for "Black Beauty."

Read some fictional "eyewitness accounts" of the haunted London Underground, then write your own version of a ghost sighting!

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

Take flight with this ode to inventors! See the history of the helicopter, from its conception in ancient China to the modern vehicle it is today.

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.