Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Meet some legendary monsters with this fun match up activity. These mythical creatures all reflect a bit of the geography where they originated.

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

A soldier meets a mysterious stranger in a graveyard. Could this be the dark figure that townsfolk have seen darting in and out of the shadows?

Learn about famous nonfiction writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Jack London in this fun worksheet, then try writing some nonfiction yourself.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

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.

Students will learn about the sword maker Muramasa Sengo, read through the eyewitness accounts, and decide who the trustworthy source is!

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Signal Cause and Effect.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identify and Develop an Opinion.

Learn about movie sound effects with this reading and writing worksheet. Your young movie fan will enjoy learning about the job of sound designers.

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

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

Calling all chefs! This menu needs a new sandwich item. Can you come up with a delicious and innovative concoction?

Learn more about Julia Morgan, the woman who designed her way into California history, and also practice reading informational paragraphs.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Distinguish Between Facts and Opinions.

Thanksgiving readers theater is fun for the whole family. This Thanksgiving readers theater activity tells the true story of the first Thanksgiving.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

The silent film era featured creative storytelling techniques like miming and slapstick. Read and write about silent film era classics like Charlie Chaplin.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.