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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Students learn to observe small details in text through repetition and the nursery rhyme, "The House that Jack Built."

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

How many L's do Mary and her little lamb have in her nursery rhyme? Kids find and count each letter L in the rhyme on this kindergarten reading worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Fill in the New Year's Eve story with pictures instead of words.

After reading a short text about a new puppy, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

After reading the poem, draw a picture of the two main characters.

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

How many Y's can your child spot in the "Pussycat, Pussycat" rhyme? Kids find and count each letter Y in the rhyme on this kindergarten reading worksheet.

The more books you read about a topic, the more you learn! This worksheet helps students compare and contrast information they learn from multiple books about the same topic.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Mmmm! Can you smell the Christmas cookies in the oven? Warm up your child's writing skills with this Christmas cookies writing prompt.

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.

Kids who love space can learn all about the heroic Sally Ride, the first American woman to venture into space.

This coloring page features a scene from the classic children's poem, Star Light, Star Bright.

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.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

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.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Bring this Jack Be Nimble coloring page to life with crayons! Color nimble Jack, decked out in star-spangled pajamas as he jumps over candlesticks.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Your student will read about the Mothman and then practice putting events in order.

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

Help Santa out by making him a wish list. Have your child fill-in the blanks with this Santa letter template, and send the letter off to the North Pole!