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.

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

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

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

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

Share some special storytelling time during the holidays. Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

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.

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 Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

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

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

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

This coloring page features the Chimera from Greek mythology. It has the head of a goat, the body of a lion, and a tail of a snake!

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.

Cozy up for story time with one of the most well-known Christmas stories, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

This quick story of Captain Kidd brings pirates and reading on an adventure for your kids!

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

Use this writing response to test your little reader's understanding of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm.

Read a classic Aesop's fable about the importance of honesty! Your child will get to practice punctuating this passage with periods.

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

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: Exploring Fictional Text.

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

Enjoy the end of this 2-part storybook coloring series featuring The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen.

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