ACTIVITIES
This is an easy way to help encourage your students to continue to read at home. These can be constructed with a gallon…
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Your child can use this graphic organizer to identify the sequence of events in a story or a sequential task. This…
Enhance your instruction about story development with this graphic organizer that can be used for prewriting or to…
LESSON PLANS
Assign or suggest creative ways for students to convey their knowledge of a book they read with this resource. Using…
Learn how to identify goals, and list steps necessary to achieve them.
In this poetry activity, students identify the characters in the poem, the setting, and the main events; and predict…
DAILY WARM-UPS
Improve students' reading skills and increase their knowledge of space sciences. This printable warm-up includes a…
Give students reading practice with this printable warm-up. Students will read a passage about cat myths and answer…
Improve your students' nonfiction reading skills with an informational text about ladybugs and related comprehension…
Improve students' reading skills with a passage about sloths and related comprehension questions, in this printable…
BOOK GUIDES
Ask pupils these questions to guide classroom discussion about The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo.
WORKSHEETS
Spark debate about symbolism, good versus evil, relationships, and more with these discussion questions for The…
This printable explains the five essential elements of a story. Give students this printable to use as a reference.
REFERENCE
Use the children's book Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass to teach students about…
After students read Aesop's fable "Grasshopper and Owl," they complete a vocabulary activity and draw conclusions about…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Did you assign reading from our summer reading suggestions? Use our related teaching guides when you return to school in…
Enhance understanding and diversity awareness with a teaching guide that offers reading ideas about Hispanic heritage…
Our discussion guide for Story Thieves: Pick the Plot, a book where the reader is in control, contains questions and…
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn is an award-nominated mystery that takes place in 18th-century Japan. These ideas and…
Try a printable worksheet that will help organize the chronology of a story. This printable is customizable. Tailor the…
Reward students for reading books by adding to a student-made tree.
Recommended books related to fables for classroom use.
Teach students about the Boston Tea Party while improving their reading comprehension skills. This printable contains an…
Increase students' knowledge of science while improving their reading skills. This printable warm-up includes a…