Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Use this All About Misty Copeland Reader to help early readers learn about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theater.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

This prediction activity engages students in thinking about the skill of Ãpredictingà from a writerÃs point of view.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Sing the classic song "Pop Goes the Weasel" while coloring in the matching pictures.

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

Help your kindergarten students think about key ideas they’ve learned about penguins using this helpful worksheet.

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

Learners dive into a familiar tongue twister to count the S's in this letter recognition worksheet.

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Read a simple tale about pirates and stolen treasure, then chart the story on a map.

With this printable mini book, kids will work on their reading comprehension by following the story about the hungry duck.

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

Who’s voice is MISSING from the nonfiction text? Use this exercise with your students to analyze missing perspectives in informational text.

Discover how our friends across the pond celebrate the holiday season!

Students will practice their reading fluency while also searching for all of the letter S’s!

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Learning About Literacy Concepts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.