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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.