Help your young writer prepare to write procedural books by filling out this planner. Considering each step of a process sets students up for success when writing how-to books.

Students will get to track their own learning on a topic using this graphic organizer. First they'll write down thoughts and questions they have about a topic. After reading, they'll record their new thoughts and consider how their responses have changed.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Share a story with your child! With this five-page classic folktale, she'll get to color the illustrations as she hones her reading skills.

Does this shark look strange to you? Learn all about why his tail is so long with a fun and informative coloring page!

Support critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the final chapters of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Encourage critical thinking and support your students’ literacy development by asking questions as they read the final chapters of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

Pick up some fun movie trivia and learn about how special sound effects are made on this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

It's up to your 2nd grader to make a story based on a prince, a princess and two huge grins. Try story elements like setting, background and a problem.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

This Rapunzel story is missing some picturesâand in the wrong order! Test reading comprehension skills by arranging the events in the most logical order.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prove It With Text Evidence.

Get straight to the point with this worksheet about fencing, one of the lesser-known Olympic sports.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

For those who prefer their fairy tales cheery all the way, here's an alternate ending to Rapunzel that's sure to please. Compare and contrast the two endings!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Keep a record of friends you meet over the summer with this impromptu address book to fill with fun facts about all the friends you make this summer.