CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the definitions, choose to have the text read aloud, and have chosen text translated. In this folktale, Nasreddin Hodja wonders why watermelons and walnuts grow the way they do. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]