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

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

Hickory Dickory Dock, how many mice ran up the clock? Learn simple subtraction with your preschooler!

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

About 14 million people visit the historic city of Berlin each year. Give your students the opportunity to study and share historic facts and places in Germany's capital with this brochure exercise.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

As students read informational books, encourage them to use sticky notes to record what they learn. Help them keep track of the information they learn with this helpful worksheet.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

The "teremok", or the little hideaway, is becoming home to many animals! Enjoy part two of this Russian folk tale, and help your child build reading skills.

Have your third graders pull out their color pencils and learn about the history of fidget spinners. This colorful exercise will increase your students' understanding of nonfiction text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Use this resource to organize questions in diagram boxes about a text or topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Predicting Pictures.

Help these poor kittens add up their mittens! Your preschooler will be learning the basics of addition and multiplication with this nursery rhyme math sheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Learning About Literacy Concepts.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

What if Humpty Dumpty wasn't the only one sitting on the wall? Try out a simple subtraction problem using this classic nursery rhyme.

Continue the illustrated story of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Continue your journey with Kolobok, the crafty little ball of dough. In part three, he encounters a wolf! Can he escape?

If one bridge falls down, how many bridges are left? None! Help your preschooler sort out simple subtraction with this nursery rhyme math worksheet.

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

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