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.

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

Review Civil War key terms and people with this history sheet. Your child will decide which terms describe the Confederacy and which describe the Union.

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.

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.

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

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.

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

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

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

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.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

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: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

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

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

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

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

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!