This printable booklet is a great way to help children learn facts about Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Each nine-page worksheet produces two half-page booklets.

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!

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Here's a language arts worksheet that's sure to boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

This helpful picture chart helps students identify the different text features found in the nonfiction books they are reading.

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone his critical thinking skills with this worksheet that challenges him to write his own book review.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

With a simple story line and pictures kids can color it, this printable mini book is just the thing to get reluctant readers excited about reading.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

This book boosts reading and phonics skills and helps your young reader learn a few of the big question words: what, where, will, want, and why.

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

Use these picture cards to introduce your students to 16 common theme words.

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.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

As students read independently, they’ll run into words they have trouble decoding. Have your kids cut out these fun “tricky word” bookmarks to help them to recognize and record these words so that they can practice decoding them!

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

As students learn to read independently, they’ll undoubtedly run into words they have trouble decoding. This worksheet helps students to reflect on the tricky words they run into and how they can decode them.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

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

Use this handy worksheet to help students practice identifying the parts of a fiction text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

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

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.