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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop and practice reading comprehension by sharing about books they’ve read. After taking turns telling a partner all about their chosen books, students will write or draw about what their partner shared.

Enjoy part four of this five-part series of the Russian folk tale, Teremok! Your child will get to color and build her reading skills.

In "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader meets a friendly shoemaker. This Grimm's fairy tale is told through colorable pictures and kid-friendly text.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Is your child excited to write his letter to Santa? Here is a printable letter page, where he can write his Christmas wishes, and then color a picture!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

Santa rewards kids on the nice list ... but what about his sneaky elves? Make your kids giggle this Christmas with these silly elf notes.

Clues can help us make predictions! Students will read a story about Molly, find the clues, and use those clues to predict what Molly will do next.

In A Christmas Carol, setting plays a big role in the story. Learn about A Christmas Carol setting in this worksheet.

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

This is the final chapter of the tale of Kolobok. Famous in Russian folklore, this clever ball of dough finally meets his match, the fox!

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Dictionaries & Definitions.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

Pretend you're spending the holidays in France as you discover the Christmas customs and culinary delights of a country half a world away!

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.

Write a Christmas wish list with this template, waiting to be sent off to Santa! Your little one can even practice handwriting and building sentences.

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

The Battle of San Jacinto was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Your child will sharpen his reading skills and his knowledge of U.S. history!

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

The more books you read about a topic, the more you learn! This worksheet helps students compare and contrast information they learn from multiple books about the same topic.