Let's write a pretend newspaper article! Here's a silly way for your child to look at telling a story the way it might be written for a newspaper.

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

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

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Evidence.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Match Author's Point with Evidence.

While playing this fun memory game, students will find a piece of evidence that supports each claim.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

In this activity, your class will examine nonfiction texts to determine an author's point, a supporting reason and two points of supporting evidence.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Have students step into the role of a journalist with this engaging newspaper-themed writing activity!

Each inventive activity on the board inspires children to use their imagination while completing an academic task.

Challenge your kids to translate LOL into an academic sentence! Give your students extra practice rewriting online comments so that they fit the academic setting.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Students will answer questions about a nonfiction text and find quotes to support their answers.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: I Can Use Context Clues!

Children are guided through the process of writing clear, well supported arguments with this writing template.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: I Can Use Context Clues!

In this worksheet, students will use context clues to help make sense of unfamiliar words.

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

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

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

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Explore using present progressive tense verbs to complete sentences with this grammar worksheet!

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.