Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Predictions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: We Read Together.

Read page six from The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Read about the nightingale's life in the palace, and color in the illustration.

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Meet the mythical Captain Stormalong, a sturdy sailor who's said to have conquered the high seas.

As students become independent readers, they may have questions about what they read. Instead of taking the questions as they come up, encourage students to write them down using this handy worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

This holiday season, enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories with your little reader.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Read page 4 of the beloved tale "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, abridged for younger readers.

This holiday season enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories with your little reader.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

In page two of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, the reader sees the nightingale singing in the palace gardens. Read and color this worksheet.

Read the conclusion to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens to find out what happens to Scrooge.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

Find out what happens next in this classic Christmas story, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.