Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

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

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

After reading the poem, draw a picture of the two main characters.

Reading is awesome! It’s even more fun when you’re reading about subjects and stories that interest you. Help students find books they love in this fun activity.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

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…

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Reading fluency is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about finding meaning and making connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share about how it connects to their own lives.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

Learning how to figure out the trickier words is an essential tool for readers of all levels. This fun worksheet helps students practice using context clues and pictures to decode tricky words and improve their reading fluency skills.

Find out what happens to the Velveteen Rabbit in part two of this beautiful storybook coloring series.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

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