There's nothing better than a mug of hot chocolate! Your child can work on their writing skills as they describe how to make a great cup of cocoa.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

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

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

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

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

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.

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.

Inspiration is a blank canvas! All we know about this man is he's wearing a frontiersman hat, so let your child develop a set of character traits for him.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Valentine's Day isn't just about handing out paper cards and heart-shaped candies -- it's about showing your family and friends how much you love them!

Read a simple tale about pirates and stolen treasure, then chart the story on a map.

Join Joe and Kyla as they explore the Museum of Natural History. Read all about their adventure and then answer the questions.

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

Got a curious kid at home? Help him discover more about the kangaroo, the national animal of Australia and a favorite of zoo-goers everywhere.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.