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!

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

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

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

Get ready for the back to school season with a printable to-do list full of fall colors, a great start to an organized school year!

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

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.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

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.

Have your student read this story about two best friends, Cindy and Miranda. Then, answer the questions. Find out how the two girls handled the situation.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

If your kid is crazy for castles and knights, have her read Eleanor's biography in this worksheet. Enhance her reading skills with a short comprehension quiz.

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

Kids can demonstrate their understanding of what they are reading with this printable bookmark.

Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.

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

Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

Election season is here, so pull out the crayons and let your future voter dive into the world of politics.

This reading worksheet highlights important vocabulary words and the main purpose of a text.

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

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

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

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.