Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

Read this creepy story about a mythological creature called a korrigan, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

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

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

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

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.