First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Show your child the benefits of making connections with the characters in a story with this introspective worksheet.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

If your kid loves the book Bridge to Terabithia, he might enjoy its movie adaptation. He'll have fun reading and watching while honing his analytical skills.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

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

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

After reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, let students use their creativity to model the two main settings from the story!

What if Peter Pan and Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" met? Your child gets to decide what happens next and write a story based on this fun coloring page scene!

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

Get writing going with your own Three Billy Goats Gruff sequencing and writing worksheets.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Connections with Our Feelings.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.