Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Comparing different stories is a great way to help your young reader get started with analyzing texts. She'll compare and contrast two children's favorites.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Signal Words, Facts, and Opinions.

In "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader meets a friendly shoemaker. This Grimm's fairy tale is told through colorable pictures and kid-friendly text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Read some fictional "eyewitness accounts" of the haunted London Underground, then write your own version of a ghost sighting!

Read the eyewitness accounts of sightings at Russell Hotel, then do some comparing and contrasting using the Venn diagram at the bottom.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Read about this dry, warm biome, then review what you've learned as you play a round or two of this fun-fact card game.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

Get ready for a ghostly reading activity! Here's a Halloween sheet that will teach your child all about ghosts and the history behind these spooks.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Clues can help us make predictions! Students will read a story about Molly, find the clues, and use those clues to predict what Molly will do next.

Symbolism in A Christmas Carol helps bring out the story's holiday messages. Learn about symbolism in A Christmas Carol with this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

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.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

Does your child know where their toys come from before they're in the toy store? Get your student ready to research with this fun worksheet and activity.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Let's Read It With Expression!

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

This coloring page features the Chimera from Greek mythology. It has the head of a goat, the body of a lion, and a tail of a snake!

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.