Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

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

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Children learn about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including key players and events, and how it contributed to the eventual passing of the 19th Amendment.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

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

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.