Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Any kid studying the American Revolution will likely have to memorize this famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Using this worksheet, students will focus on creating a personal timeline about their life.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

Your little learner can learn about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen as he hones his reading comprehension skills with this history worksheet.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

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.

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.