Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Before reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, use this pre-reading activity to build background knowledge and engagement. 

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

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

Dive into article identification with this beach-themed grammar worksheet!

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Help your 1st grader write awesome opinions with this Handwriting Without Tears opinion writing template.

Introduce your little one to tangrams with this printable template! He'll get to make his own tangram shapes set.

Engage students' senses and inspire their creativity with this sensory poem template!

This Visual Schedule Template will help your young learner stay on track each day! With a customizable template, you can create a unique schedule that works for your child while getting them involved in the planning process.

Use this Number Talk template to support your students’ oral language development as they discuss multiplication strategies.

Children will use this simple template to write a friendly letter to Santa Claus.

Does your student know what a rhyme is and how to make one? Determine the extent of their rhyming knowledge with this assessment worksheet.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

If you have a fifth grader learning to write an essay supporting an opinion, this argument writing template can clarify the process.

Use this Number Talk template to support your students’ oral language development as they discuss patterns.

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

Test your child's knowledge of plant life--more specifically, trees--with this colorful, cut-and-paste tree chart.

Help your kindergartener craft the perfect letter to Santa with this great template! He can work on handwriting, and even learn a few new sight words.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: activating prior knowledge.

This worksheet template can be used to introduce students to new vocabulary words.

Give students a boost in their vocabulary study skills with this Vocabulary Note Card Template!

Use this number line template to give your young mathematicians practice with identifying, counting, and ordering numbers from 0-20.

Use this paper template to create a miniature lantern with your own wishes for the coming year.

Use this template to record multiple meanings of the same word. A useful resource for reading, instruction, and word study.

Practice identifying articles in this fun camping-themed worksheet!

Practice letter-writing basics with this cut-out Mother's Day card template!

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

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.