Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

This Thanksgiving rebus story gets your child to fill in the blanks with pictures. Use this Thanksgiving rebus to cut and paste your holiday story together.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Kids will read about the Menehune legend and answer questions about it afterwards.

Is your little learner as quick as Jack? Give her a great head start to learning basic addition with this fun nursery rhyme math lesson!

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring Character Motivation.

List your favorite movies that came out this summer, then write your very own reviews of the best—and maybe the worst!—of the bunch.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

If your little one loves to read about the creepy creatures, he'll enjoy this spooky page about the Jersey Devil.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Enjoy part three of this Russian folk tale, Teremok. The little hideaway hut is getting crowded! Have your child read to you to find out what happens next.

Your child will identify the author and illustrator of the book by circling the appropriate names on the cover of the book.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Captions for Illustrations.

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

You may not know of Dr. Jonas Salk, but your life has certainly been affected by him! This famous scientist created the polio vaccine.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

For those who prefer their fairy tales cheery all the way, here's an alternate ending to Rapunzel that's sure to please. Compare and contrast the two endings!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

Read a famous narrative poem, "Casey at the Bat," and practice reading comprehension skills at the same time in this printable mini-book worksheet.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

Find out what happens to the elves and the shoemaker in the final page of this classic story by the Brothers Grimm.

Use this writing response to test your little reader's understanding of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm.

As students begin to read independently, they may have questions about what they read. These questions should be encouraged! Have students record their questions about their reading or any unknown words on this graphic organizer.