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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Predictions.

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

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

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Print out this minibook and use your imagination to illustrate a short version of this fun fairy tale!

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

Use this handy fluency checklist to help your students track their accuracy, expression, and pacing when reading to support comprehension!

Use this simple and effective graphic organizer to have students predict or describe events from their own lives or from stories.

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

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

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

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

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.

As students read informational books, encourage them to use sticky notes to record what they learn. Help them keep track of the information they learn with this helpful worksheet.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

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.

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

This rubric can be used with any lesson where students are learning or practicing fluency.

This worksheet can help first graders to practice learning how to locate information using a glossary.

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.