Use this exercise to give your students practice developing an opinion about a nonfiction topic. They will read a short passage and express an opinion about the topic based on the evidence in the text.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

Kids match pictures showing what came first with pictures showing what came next.

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Your young student will step back in time with this worksheet on the Ming Dynasty. He'll build comprehension skills as he learns some ancient history.

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

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

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.

Kids will first read the story about Alice and her dog Bobo, then write her own middle and ending to the story.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

This Mary Had a Little Lamb coloring page depicts a heartwarming scene from the famous nursery rhyme.

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

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Children sing or read along to a familiar poem as they circle each letter U in this letter recognition worksheet.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.