Picture comprehension is a great intro to reading comprehension! Kids will simply identify what is going on in each picture.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of a Book.

Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of a Book.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Going on a Picture Walk.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

A rebus story is like a picture story! It's up to your little storyteller to fill in the blanks with the cut-out pictures on page 1.

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.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.