Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Sharing Ideas with a Friend.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

This worksheet helps guide kids along as they read their chosen book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: We Read Together.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?