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

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

Engage kids in reading before they even start! This fun worksheet encourages students to make predictions about what books will be about just by glancing at the cover and contents.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

Here is the ending to the Grimm brothers' version of Rapunzel, adapted for kids! Compare and contrast this ending with the sunnier alternate conclusion.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

A fun game for students, book bingo can either be played as a game to diversify student reading or as a way to have students begin interacting and talking about the types of reading materials they enjoy.

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

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!

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

Use this exercise with your students as they work through the realms of realism and fantasy.

This shark is anything but fearsome, in fact, he's a bit adorable! Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, all about the whale shark.

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

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

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

As students read independently, they’ll run into words they have trouble decoding. Have your kids cut out these fun “tricky word” bookmarks to help them to recognize and record these words so that they can practice decoding them!

Read this creepy story about a mythological creature called a korrigan, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Have students practice reading fluency by reflecting on what they’ve read using this fun worksheet. After reading independently, students are encouraged to share what they’ve read, ask questions, and make predictions.

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!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

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

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

In Russian, the word teremok means "little hideaway". Give your child a fun, fresh way to practice her reading with this Russian folk tale.

Fee Fi Fo Fum! Take your young reader on an adventure and build basic comprehension skills while reading the classic fairy tale, "Jack and the Beanstalk."