Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

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

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Do you know how to haiku? This haiku worksheet gives your budding poet practice with counting syllables and noticing the role of rhythm in poetry.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

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

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

Find out what happens to the Velveteen Rabbit in part two of this beautiful storybook coloring series.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Color the illustrations as you go!

Introduce your child to The Steadfast Tin Soldier, a classic short story by Hans Christian Andersen. Add some color to these storybook pages as you read!

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

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

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Get to know one of the most unique and colorful monkeys, the red-shanked douc langur. Read about why they are an endangered species with this info-sheet.

Read this creepy story about a mythological creature called a korrigan, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.