Assess your students' read-alouds with this versatile rubric.

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

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.

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Starting to Read.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

This worksheet helps students learn from pictures and captions in nonfiction texts while also answering comprehension questions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: We Read Together.

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

Who is your favorite larger-than-life character? Help your young reader understand story structure with this tall tales activity.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

Help your students become better readers! Read each sentence and then match the picture to the correct sentence.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

Check out all of the consonant digraphs throughout everything you read!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Starting to Read.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Traits in Fairy Tales.

Read this timeless poem by Jane Taylor aloud to your child. Work together to identify and circle the rhyming words.

This worksheet asks first graders to read, write and draw all about summer!

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Practice determining the meaning of unknown words in context with Read and Find Root Words #2!

Practice determining the meaning of unknown words in context with Read and Find Root Words #3!