Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Get mischievous during story time and read the story of "Rumpelstiltskin", abridged for your first grader.

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.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare & Contrast Pictures.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

As your students read the nonfiction text in this travel brochure activity, they will learn about the many cultures that have enriched the diverse city of Lisbon.

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 pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

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.

Challenge your student's knowledge of the U.S. presidents with this series of match-up games.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

Cozy up for story time with one of the most well-known Christmas stories, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

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.

Read the conclusion to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens to find out what happens to Scrooge.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Find out what happens next with page 5 of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Parts and Making Predictions.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.

Language is fascinating and confusing! Learn some words in other languages that don't translate to English with this great linguistics worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences with Sentence Stems.

Mmmm! Can you smell the Christmas cookies in the oven? Warm up your child's writing skills with this Christmas cookies writing prompt.