This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Have your child try her hand at storyboarding in this reading comprehension sheet.

As you continue with page 7 of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, be sure to color in the illustration as you read!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

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

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Let your young reader review the book as they go with this personalized bookmark. Cut out the bookmark and fold it in half to spice up the reading experience!

Use this writing response to test your little reader's understanding of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm.

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: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths, and this coloring series features mythological creatures from all over the world.

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

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

Read page six from The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Read about the nightingale's life in the palace, and color in the illustration.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

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.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.