Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

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.

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

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

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

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.

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

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

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool eel facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool lobster facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Introduce children to American playwright Lorraine Hanberry, who was only 29 years old when she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play for "A Raisin in the Sun."