Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

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

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

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Get caught up in the drama of "Casey at the Bat" with this reader's theater script.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

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

This worksheet will have your child assemble and decorate a bookmark while reviewing story sequence as divided into beginning, middle, and end.

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Do you know the story of the Frog Prince? Help your little reader hone her basic reading comprehension skills with a fun storyboard exercise.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

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.

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.

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.