Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

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

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

As students become independent readers, they may have questions about what they read. Instead of taking the questions as they come up, encourage students to write them down using this handy worksheet.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

In this thoughtful culture and writing activity, children will read about each of the tenets of Kwanzaa, then reflect on what these mean to them.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

This shark is anything but fearsome, in fact, he's a bit adorable! Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, all about the whale shark.

Help kids get familiar with the process of writing a thank you note, so they'll never complain about writer's block again.

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

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Here is a great holiday activity for you and your little one. He can practice his handwriting and writing addresses for these home-made Christmas cards.

This is the final chapter of the tale of Kolobok. Famous in Russian folklore, this clever ball of dough finally meets his match, the fox!

Children look at a picture, then decide what should happen next, in this fun early literacy worksheet.

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.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Explore the most famous rock pile in the history of the world!

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.