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

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.

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

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

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.

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

Draw a picture for each line of this nursery rhyme favorite!

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

If you wanted to protect an underground kingdom, how would you do it?

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: How Pictures Can Help Us Read.

In Russian, the word teremok means "little hideaway". Give your child a fun, fresh way to practice her reading with this Russian folk tale.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

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

First, students will read a biography of Amelia Boynton Robinson, and then respond to comprehension questions, using text evidence.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

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.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

A fun game for students, book bingo can either be played as a game to diversify student reading or as a way to have students begin interacting and talking about the types of reading materials they enjoy.