This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don’t let allusions be your Achilles’ heel—practice interpreting and writing them with this seventh- and eighth-grade worksheet!

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

Use context clues to guess the meaning of idioms in this figurative language worksheet!

Meet the curious mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi in this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet adapted from the classic Rudyard Kipling tale.

In this worksheet, students will read about Anne Frank, then complete a chart identifying cause and effect.

Students will read a story by Rudyard Kipling and answer comprehension questions that follow.

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

Children read about the weather as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

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

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Play with words in this cheerful spring activity!

Uncover a silly summertime joke with this fun code-breaking worksheet for first and second graders!

Deduce the definitions of tricky words in this engaging informational passage!

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

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

Make sense of the microorganisms and microbiome in your body!

Explore figurative language fun with this engaging worksheet!

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Collect examples of personification as you read with this helpful worksheet!

Dig into the fascinating hobby of bottle hunting in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Discover the fascinating history of New Mexico’s Sky City in this middle school worksheet!

Follow two determined racers on an unforgettable journey with this third- and fourth-grade poetry worksheet!

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Christopher Robin from A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh.