Enjoy an engaging reading of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" with a three-part audiobook. The first part of the emotional tale takes listeners under the sea to follow the little mermaid's journey above water to explore the...

KIDS Clubhouse Adventures kids read and discover more about insects. In this feature, kids create their own insects based on the knowledge they gathered in entomology books using craft supplies to represent body parts and other defining...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #40: Eve of the Emperor Penguin by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Penguins and Antarctica, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne...

This video [0:53] checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Dolphins and Sharks, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #42: A Good Night for Ghosts by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Ghosts, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #2: The Knight at Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Knights and Castles, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope...

This video checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #5: Afternoon on the Amazon by Mary Pope Osborne. Fact Tracker: Rain Forests, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, is...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #17: Tonight on the Titanic by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Titanic, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope...

This video checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #28: High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Fact Tracker: Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters, the nonfiction companion written by Will...

In this lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a section of text by anticipating the box and bullets structure as you read a new section. Login gives access to a slideshow and additional videos. [3:21]

In this lesson, you will learn how to get the big idea of a nonfiction text by stopping at new information and asking "Is this adding to an idea I already have, or is it giving me a new idea?" Login gives access to a slideshow with...

In this lesson, you will learn how to figure out unfamiliar words by envisioning what is happening in the text and thinking about what the word probably means. [3:03]

In this lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a section of nonfiction text by gathering details from that section and asking "What are these details mostly teaching me about?" [3:31]

In this lesson, you will learn how to understand scientific concepts by examining specific information in nonfiction text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [7:00]

This video [0:30] checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #46: Dogs in the Dead of Night by Mary Pope they had lots of questions. How do St. Bernards help find avalanche survivors? Who are some of the...

This video [0:48] checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #39: Dark Day in the Deep Sea by Mary Pope Osborne. Fact Tracker: Sea Monsters, the nonfiction companion written by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie...

This video from Jennifer Gonzalez's Cult of Pedagogy provides step-by-step instructions for guiding students to understand how to determine text structures.

Tanya Lee Stone writes a little bit of everything - science, history, biography, poetry, and fiction - for kids and teens. She's written middle grades biographies of pioneering women in the NASA space program, Amelia Earhart, and Ella...