This holiday season, enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories with your little reader.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Get the best of the season, and write your own winter bucket list! This is a great exercise for helping kids set and keep goals.

Find out what happens to the elves and the shoemaker in the final page of this classic story by the Brothers Grimm.

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

Learn about Jewish-American baseball player Sandy Koufax, a baseball legend who's considered one of the greatest Jewish-American athletes in history.

Imagine that you've hidden treasure somewhere and write down each step you would need take to find the hidden treasure.

For those who prefer their fairy tales cheery all the way, here's an alternate ending to Rapunzel that's sure to please. Compare and contrast the two endings!

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

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.

Is your child having trouble navigating the rough waters of reading? Hand her this worksheet about some Olympic events: canoeing and kayaking.

Ever wonder about those mysterious crop circles that show up in fields across the world? Engage in a fun conversation about this interesting type of geoglyph.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Have your student read up on Jim Thorpe, an Olympian who is considered one of the greatest athletes of all time, and boost his reading skills at the same time.

In part two of "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader finds the shoemaker surprised to see fancy and freshly-made shoes in his workshop.

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

This is the third part in the classic Grimm's fairy tale, "The Elves and the Shoemaker." Share this story with your child during the holidays.

Language is fascinating and confusing! Learn some words in other languages that don't translate to English with this great linguistics worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Parts and Making Predictions.

Read page 10 of The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen, and find out what will happen to the Emperor!

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: What Was the Problem?

Here is the ending to the Grimm brothers' version of Rapunzel, adapted for kids! Compare and contrast this ending with the sunnier alternate conclusion.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

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

In page two of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, the reader sees the nightingale singing in the palace gardens. Read and color this worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.