Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

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

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

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.

Help students turn instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a cohesive piece of procedural writing. Using transition words is the key to successful how-to writing!

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

How well does your little reader know the story of Rapunzel? Cut out the scenes and place them in the correct order for the complete tale.

What do you in Ancient Greece when you have more money than you need? You build a giant tomb structure, of course!

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

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

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

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparative and Superlative.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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.

As students become independent readers, they may have questions about what they read. Instead of taking the questions as they come up, encourage students to write them down using this handy worksheet.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Does your child know the story of Cinderella? Sit down with your young reader and put these Cinderella story sequencing pictures back in order!

Tackle your summer schedule with a colorful, ready-to-print to do list! Your child can practice his organization skills to prepare for back to school.

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.