Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

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

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

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

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

Kindergarten students are becoming more fluent readers each day! Use this decodable story filled with sight words to help them with their reading comprehension and fluency as they read a fun summer story!

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

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

Study a bit of history about the American Revolutionary War with this information page about Washington's famous crossing of the Delaware River.

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.

Familiarize your child with some simple sight words and rhymes with this coloring page of "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary".

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

If your students struggle with how to compare and contrast texts, this worksheet can be used for reteaching or extra practice.

With this versatile graphic organizer students have spaces to record information from their sources and synthesize the information in a central space.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

This worksheet will help first graders learn to make inferences.

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool guitar facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Boost your kindergartener's reading confidence with this cute seesaw story book that she can color and assemble herself.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.