Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

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

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

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

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

If your students struggle with how to compare and contrast texts, this worksheet can be used for reteaching or extra practice.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool guitar facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

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.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Do you know why hammerhead sharks have such a funny-shaped head? Here's a fun and informational shark coloring page for you and your child to share!

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.

Learn more about this amazing artist in this printable biography when studying the fine arts or Black History Month.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

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

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 open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool trumpet facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.