When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

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

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

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

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

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 this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

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

There's a happy-looking, big-eared bat and some fun facts on this coloring page! And it's a great way to start a talk about endangered animals with your child.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.