Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

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

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

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.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

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

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

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

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

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

There's a happy-looking, big-eared bat and some fun facts on this coloring page! And it's a great way to start a talk about endangered animals with your child.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.