Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Learn about influential writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, known in both the Jewish-American and art communities for being a famous writer and collector.

Kids will read about the Menehune legend and answer questions about it afterwards.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

This quick story of Captain Kidd brings pirates and reading on an adventure for your kids!

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool weedy seadragon facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

The more students read about a topic, the more they’ll become experts! Help kids embrace their expert status by having them recommend books to friends. They'll write a letter recommending at least two different books, sharing what makes each unique.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

How does your garden grow? Challenge your preschooler with some nursery rhyme math, a fun way to introduce her to basic addition.

Our worksheet gives your Hobbit fan space to jot down similarities and differences between the book and film for a great exercise in comparing and contrasting.

This worksheet gives students an opportunity to reflect on what they have read in an open-ended way.

Love is in the air this Valentine's Day! Give your young writer a chance to practice her descriptive writing with a creative writing prompt for the holiday.

Fluent readers are able to derive meaning from the text and make connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share how it connects to other books they've read.

For those who prefer their fairy tales cheery all the way, here's an alternate ending to Rapunzel that's sure to please. Compare and contrast the two endings!

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

In this fun worksheet, read all about the Vodnici and then answer some critical thinking questions about the eyewitness accounts.

Learn about a scary condition called Old Hag Syndrome. Kids will respond to the reading with some comprehension questions.

They don't make gardens like this anymore. More a combinaton amusement park and treasure trove, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the spot to visit.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Sharing Facts from Nonfiction.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

Young learners begin to consider the form and structure of poetry in this early literacy worksheet.

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.