Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

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

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

The "teremok", or the little hideaway, is becoming home to many animals! Enjoy part two of this Russian folk tale, and help your child build reading skills.

Share some special storytelling time during the holidays. Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

As students practice reading independently, they’ll run into tricky words. Help them learn how to identify which books are “just right” for their reading level by recording how many tricky words they run into.

History buffs, get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know about all of our U.S. presidents with a fun matching game!

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Color in this cool scene at the White House, and learn a few White House facts too!

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Can you imagine celebrating Christmas in the summer? That's what the people in New Zealand do!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

Find out more about what REALLY dwells in swamp ecosystems with this worksheet all about swamps.

Learn all about legendary magician Harry Houdini in this nonfiction reading worksheet.

Constellation legends are full of adventure. These worksheets focus on the constellations Perseus, Andromeda, Queen Cassiopeia and the sea monster Cetus.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

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

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

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

Meet Harriet Tubman, a true American hero who devoted her whole life to caring for and protecting others.

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.