Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

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 reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

Students will sort out sentences that reflect facts and opinions.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read chapters 5-8 of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Will visitors see leprechauns while visiting in Dublin? Tell your researching students to find out with this travel brochure activity!

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.