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.

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

Students learn how to identify and locate text features with this informational writing worksheet.

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

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

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.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Dictionaries & Definitions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Complete this Hanukkah story by selecting the correct pictures instead of words.

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

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

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

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.