Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

This quick story of Captain Kidd brings pirates and reading on an adventure for your kids!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use this writing response to test your little reader's understanding of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm.

Read a classic Aesop's fable about the importance of honesty! Your child will get to practice punctuating this passage with periods.

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

The more students read about a topic, the more they’ll become experts! Help kids embrace their expert status by having them recommend books to friends. They'll write a letter recommending at least two different books, sharing what makes each unique.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

This activity invites kids to explore Norway's history, attractions, and get to know its famous residents. After learning more about Oslo, your child will create a travel brochure and map of the city.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Let your young reader review the book as they go with this personalized bookmark. Cut out the bookmark and fold it in half to spice up the reading experience!

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

Find out what happens to the Velveteen Rabbit in part two of this beautiful storybook coloring series.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

What better way to get your child excited about reading than a series of fun stories? Meet Kolobok, a ball of dough who comes to life in this Russian folk tale!

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone his critical thinking skills with this worksheet that challenges him to write his own book review.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Enjoy the end of this 2-part storybook coloring series featuring The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.