Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Upon finishing The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, readers compare the written and visual forms of the story in this extension activity!

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Use this glossary with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Wild and Windy Weather.

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Three full days of Christmas celebration? The holidays season is pretty amazing in Germany!

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development with these discussion questions for Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Does your child know the story of Cinderella? Sit down with your young reader and put these Cinderella story sequencing pictures back in order!

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Esperanza from Esperanza Rising.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.