Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

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

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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

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

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Teach your child about an endangered species with this information page, all about the Forest Owlet. They can color as they read some interesting facts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

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

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.