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

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

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

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

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

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

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 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 Plan: Searching for Text Features.

Help students learn the relationship between illustrations and stories with this worksheet that allows students to become artists.

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

There's a happy-looking, big-eared bat and some fun facts on this coloring page! And it's a great way to start a talk about endangered animals with your child.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Fill in the blanks of this Christmas story by using pictures that represent words.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Going on a Picture Walk.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Learning About Literacy Concepts.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

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

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