This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Introduce your child to The Steadfast Tin Soldier, a classic short story by Hans Christian Andersen. Add some color to these storybook pages as you read!

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

Print out this minibook and use your imagination to illustrate a short version of this fun fairy tale!

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Young learners will enjoy coloring, tracing, and assembling this sweet story with a cast of friendly animals.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Wild and Windy Weather.

This is the third part in the classic Grimm's fairy tale, "The Elves and the Shoemaker." Share this story with your child during the holidays.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Use this Venn diagram to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting characters.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone his critical thinking skills with this worksheet that challenges him to write his own book review.

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

Have your child try her hand at storyboarding in this reading comprehension sheet.

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

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

Enjoy the end of this 2-part storybook coloring series featuring The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Color the illustrations as you go!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Use this Venn diagram graphic to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting settings.

Read the poem, then draw a picture of each object that Old King Cole called for.