Can you imagine celebrating Christmas in the summer? That's what the people in New Zealand do!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

Discover how our friends across the pond celebrate the holiday season!

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Read a classic Aesop's fable about the importance of honesty! Your child will get to practice punctuating this passage with periods.

Children get to know Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor with this All About Sonia Sotomayor Reader.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

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.

As students read informational books, encourage them to use sticky notes to record what they learn. Help them keep track of the information they learn with this helpful worksheet.

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Keep rolling along with Kolobok, the main character in this well-known Russian folk tale. Your child will love coloring as she builds reading skills!

Springtime is here! Freshen up your spring schedule with this handy to-do list, great for helping your child stay on track with his schoolwork.

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

Oh no! The Princess and the Pea story has gotten all mixed up. Can you put the story in the right order?

Write about your Christmas tree with this holiday writing prompt! Kids will describe their favorite things about the classic Christmas decoration.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Continue your journey with Kolobok, the crafty little ball of dough. In part three, he encounters a wolf! Can he escape?

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Fluent readers are able to derive meaning from the text and make connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share how it connects to other books they've read.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Find out how the story ends in this final chapter of the Teremok folk tale! Have fun coloring together, and building your child's enthusiasm for reading.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare & Contrast Pictures.