Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Do you know why hammerhead sharks have such a funny-shaped head? Here's a fun and informational shark coloring page for you and your child to share!

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Children contemplate an age-old question as they spot the uppercase and lowercase C's in this fun literacy worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Get all the Tasmanian devil facts on this worksheet, from what they eat to how they got their name.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was a fascinating woman in history. Learn a bit more about her life with this history worksheet.

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

Give your young writer a chance to practice procedural writing by sharing how to complete a simple recipe of their choosing. Having students consider each step of a process sets them up for success when writing how-to books.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

This worksheet teaches first graders how to write headings for informational texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

Learning about text features, such as Table of Contents, is an important part of learning how to read.

Use this worksheet as a way for students to practice retelling a familiar story using their own words and images.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

Learners dive into a familiar tongue twister to count the S's in this letter recognition worksheet.

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

Pretend you're spending the holidays in France as you discover the Christmas customs and culinary delights of a country half a world away!

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

This worksheet helps introduce students to detail reading through a nursery rhyme.

Read the poem, then use the template to create puppets for a puppet show.