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.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Color in one of the most famous characters in fairytale history: Little Red Riding Hood!

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

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

This snowman stationery is a great template for your child to write his letter to Santa! Plus, it's lined to help your child work on his handwriting skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

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.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Help your student's reading comprehension with this short story and clarification questions.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Help Santa out by making him a wish list. Have your child fill-in the blanks with this Santa letter template, and send the letter off to the North Pole!

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone his critical thinking skills with this worksheet that challenges him to write his own book review.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

With a simple story line and pictures kids can color it, this printable mini book is just the thing to get reluctant readers excited about reading.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

This book boosts reading and phonics skills and helps your young reader learn a few of the big question words: what, where, will, want, and why.

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

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

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

As students read independently, they’ll run into words they have trouble decoding. Have your kids cut out these fun “tricky word” bookmarks to help them to recognize and record these words so that they can practice decoding them!