Springtime is here! Freshen up your spring schedule with this handy to-do list, great for helping your child stay on track with his schoolwork.

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

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

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

Ready, set, brainstorm! Help your students prepare to write how-to books by generating ideas about topics that they know a lot about.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing with Transition Words.

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

List your favorite movies that came out this summer, then write your very own reviews of the best—and maybe the worst!—of the bunch.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

Get out those books, open the laptop, and research what Ramadan is all about. Your child can learn valuable research skills while learning about this holiday.

This Rapunzel story is missing some picturesâand in the wrong order! Test reading comprehension skills by arranging the events in the most logical order.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Use this handy bookmark to help your students practice good reading habits while keeping track of what they read.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

Read page six from The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Read about the nightingale's life in the palace, and color in the illustration.

A rebus story is like a picture story! It's up to your little storyteller to fill in the blanks with the cut-out pictures on page 1.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

Discover how our friends across the pond celebrate the holiday season!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying Character and Setting.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.