This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Give your students practice in catching the reader's attention by using a strong hook in their writing!

What if Paul Bunyan stepped into the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story? Make writing practice creative and fun for your child with a coloring page story starter.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

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

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

What if Peter Pan and Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" met? Your child gets to decide what happens next and write a story based on this fun coloring page scene!

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

Read about the Wampus Cat, a famous Tennessee legend. Test comprehension as your child reads about some of the sightings.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

What if Peter Rabbit met the White Rabbit in Wonderland? Writing practice starts with a fun coloring page, what happens next is up to your child to write!

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

What would happen if Peter Pan invited Robin Hood to Neverland? A fun coloring page scene starts your young writer out!

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Help your 2nd grader compare and contrast their own traits to their favorite book character's traits with this graphic organizer.