Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this helpful and informative matching worksheet.

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.

Arrr you ready for a treasure hunt story? These pirates have gotten their story all jumbled! Help them put it back in order.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

This worksheet is designed to help students understand what is a heading is and practice writing them.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

This worksheet helps students learn from pictures and captions in nonfiction texts while also answering comprehension questions.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Learning About Literacy Concepts.

Students can use this open ended worksheet to practice making predictions using complete sentences.

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

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

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Is your kid over the moon for stories? Let him use his imagination to make a storyboard of a familiar nursery rhyme.

A rebus story is like a picture story! It's up to your little storyteller to fill in the blanks with the cut-out pictures on page 1.

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

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Dictionaries & Definitions.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Help your little bookworm get to know the layout of a table of contents! Learners deconstruct this sample table of contents by answering the questions.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.