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.

The silent film era featured creative storytelling techniques like miming and slapstick. Read and write about silent film era classics like Charlie Chaplin.

In "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader meets a friendly shoemaker. This Grimm's fairy tale is told through colorable pictures and kid-friendly text.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Is your child excited to write his letter to Santa? Here is a printable letter page, where he can write his Christmas wishes, and then color a picture!

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

Santa rewards kids on the nice list ... but what about his sneaky elves? Make your kids giggle this Christmas with these silly elf notes.

Clues can help us make predictions! Students will read a story about Molly, find the clues, and use those clues to predict what Molly will do next.

In A Christmas Carol, setting plays a big role in the story. Learn about A Christmas Carol setting in this worksheet.

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

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!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

Read sentences from the Constitution to help your students find and understand conditional sentences.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Dictionaries & Definitions.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

Pretend you're spending the holidays in France as you discover the Christmas customs and culinary delights of a country half a world away!

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

Write a Christmas wish list with this template, waiting to be sent off to Santa! Your little one can even practice handwriting and building sentences.

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 worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

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

Use this final discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapter 15 through the end of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.