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.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

Put the sentences of the story in order from start to finish by numbering them. Read the story in the correct order when you're finished.

When writing a story, adjectives make the story more colorful. This worksheet trains students to enhance sentences by adding descriptive adjectives to their writing.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Boost your kindergartener's reading confidence with this cute seesaw story book that she can color and assemble herself.

How many Z's does Fuzzy Wuzzy have in his tongue twister? Kids find and count each letter Z in the silly poem on this kindergarten reading worksheet.

Use this exercise with your students as they work through the realms of realism and fantasy.

Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

This worksheet can help students determine fiction and nonfiction writing styles, an essential part of the first grade language arts curriculum.