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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

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.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

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.

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 Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

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

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!

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths. Check out a little bit of kappa myth with this coloring page.

This great brain teaser challenges your child to unscramble president names and a riddle. It's a fun Presidents Day worksheet featuring Mount Rushmore!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.