Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this helpful and informative matching worksheet.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Arrr you ready for a treasure hunt story? These pirates have gotten their story all jumbled! Help them put it back in order.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

This worksheet is designed to help students understand what is a heading is and practice writing them.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Students will use content-specific vocabulary in context as they learn about the Revolutionary War.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

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

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Learn about these surprisingly diverse biomes, then test your biome and geography know-how with a desert-mapping activity.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Learning About Literacy Concepts.

Students can use this open ended worksheet to practice making predictions using complete sentences.

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Is your kid over the moon for stories? Let him use his imagination to make a storyboard of a familiar nursery rhyme.

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.