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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

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

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths, and this coloring series features mythological creatures from all over the world.

Here is the ending to the Grimm brothers' version of Rapunzel, adapted for kids! Compare and contrast this ending with the sunnier alternate conclusion.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

For October (or just for kids who love scary stories!), here's a great telling of Bancho Sarayashiki, one of Japan's most famous ghost stories.

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point of view.

Meet the mythical Captain Stormalong, a sturdy sailor who's said to have conquered the high seas.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

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

This is the third part in the classic Grimm's fairy tale, "The Elves and the Shoemaker." Share this story with your child during the holidays.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

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

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

As your students read the nonfiction text in this travel brochure activity, they will learn about the many cultures that have enriched the diverse city of Lisbon.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

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

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

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

You may not know of Dr. Jonas Salk, but your life has certainly been affected by him! This famous scientist created the polio vaccine.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

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