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

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Help your child understand the importance of preserving the environment, with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the Iranian jerboa.

A great way to introduce nonfiction to early readers, this Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz biography breaks down important information into readable passages.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Calling all chefs! This menu needs a new sandwich item. Can you come up with a delicious and innovative concoction?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Here's a language arts worksheet that's sure to boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Use these picture cards to introduce your students to 16 common theme words.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

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

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

From the topic of roller coasters to the topic of spinach, this kid-friendly worksheet guides a student in comparing their opinion to the opinions of the fictional character named “Jimmy.”

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.