This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Students will explore how illustrations can help deepen their understanding of a text.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

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.

If your little one loves to read about the creepy creatures, he'll enjoy this spooky page about the Jersey Devil.