Elementary School Reading Resources : Page 56

Have your student read up on Jim Thorpe, an Olympian who is considered one of the greatest athletes of all time, and boost his reading skills at the same time.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

When reading nonfiction books, it’s important to understand the meaning of related vocabulary words. In this activity, students identify sentences that include key vocabulary. When they're done they'll hold the key to reading success!

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Ready, set, brainstorm! Help your students prepare to write how-to books by generating ideas about topics that they know a lot about.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Enjoy part 2 of this classic holiday poem, The Night Before Christmas! Your little ones can color the illustrations as they read along.

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

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

Enjoy part two of this fun Russian folk tale, about Kolobok the little ball of dough, created accidentally by an old woman.

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

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.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Give your wild child this werewolf story to read this Halloween. He'll have a spooky story to share with friends, and get some reading practice, too!

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Continue your journey with Kolobok, the crafty little ball of dough. In part three, he encounters a wolf! Can he escape?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Going on a Picture Walk.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk.