Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

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

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

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

In part two of "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader finds the shoemaker surprised to see fancy and freshly-made shoes in his workshop.

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Focus on the Similarities.

Give your wild child this werewolf story to read this Halloween. He'll have a spooky story to share with friends, and get some reading practice, too!

Share some special storytelling time during the holidays. Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

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

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

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.

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

Read this version of The Wild Hunt with your little boy or ghoul this Halloween, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

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

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?

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

It's time to saddle up for the Olympics! Learn more about the equestrian events at the Olympics with this reading worksheet.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.