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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

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.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

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

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.

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.

Thanksgiving readers theater is fun for the whole family. This Thanksgiving readers theater activity tells the true story of the first Thanksgiving.

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.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

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

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.

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

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

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.

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

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

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.