Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

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

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, give students an opportunity to engage with the book and their senses in this poetry-based extension activity! 

Do you believe in the Bermuda Triangle? Compare witness accounts of these weird waters and draw your own conclusions in this reading worksheet.

Children learn about Rosie the Riveter, a fictional character who would became a well-known symbol of the World War II war effort, in this social studies worksheet.

Support students' critical thinking and literacy skills by asking questions as they read the next few chapters of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief.

After completing The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, have students reflect on the significant themes and events of the story with these response prompts.

After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that's because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

Use these engaging discussion prompts to support literacy development as students read the next set of entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.