Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Learning About Literacy Concepts.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Predicting Pictures.

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

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

Use this handy worksheet to help students practice identifying the parts of a fiction text.

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

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. Challenge your readers by having them fill in this graphic organizer with their story’s setting, characters, problem, and solution.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

Complete this Hanukkah story by selecting the correct pictures instead of words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

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

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Children look at a picture, then decide what should happen next, in this fun early literacy worksheet.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Introduce your early reader to comprehension concepts. Cut out each setting and paste it next to the character from the same story.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

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

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.