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

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

Ready, set, brainstorm! Help your students prepare to write how-to books by generating ideas about topics that they know a lot about.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

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

Use this handy bookmark to help your students practice good reading habits while keeping track of what they read.

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

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.

Discover how our friends across the pond celebrate the holiday season!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

Help your preschooler understand there are different types of text to be read in books, and practice some handwriting on some big words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Pictures to Read Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Have some fun practicing reading comprehension with your preschooler. She'll figure out which item or character does not belong in each group.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Is it a tiger or a shark? Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, sure to satisfy any shark fanatic!

Experience The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from two different points of view!