Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

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

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

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

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.