The Battle of San Jacinto was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Your child will sharpen his reading skills and his knowledge of U.S. history!

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.

Find out what happens to the Velveteen Rabbit in part two of this beautiful storybook coloring series.

Read a simple tale about pirates and stolen treasure, then chart the story on a map.

Have some fun with haiku! Practice syllable counting and creative writing by coming up with funny haiku poems for April Fools' Day.

This reading worksheet highlights important vocabulary words and the main purpose of a text.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Focus on the Similarities.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Symbolism in A Christmas Carol helps bring out the story's holiday messages. Learn about symbolism in A Christmas Carol with this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What Was the Problem?

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.

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

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

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

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 Plan: Map a Story.

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

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

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Your child can make her own storybook with this series of Japanese folktale coloring pages!

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