This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Students learn how to identify and locate text features with this informational writing worksheet.

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

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

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

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.

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Show kids how to sort fact from fiction with this worksheet.

What is going to happen next in this story? Become a storyteller with this fun comprehension worksheet!

Your child can make her own storybook with this series of Japanese folktale coloring pages!

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

A rebus story is like a picture story! It's up to your little storyteller to fill in the blanks with the cut-out pictures on page 1.

Help your young writer prepare to write procedural books by filling out this planner. Considering each step of a process sets students up for success when writing how-to books.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

Use this exercise to give your students practice developing an opinion about a nonfiction topic. They will read a short passage and express an opinion about the topic based on the evidence in the text.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.