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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop by picking books to read independently. Students will choose three books that look appealing and read one page. If there are five or less words that are tricky to read, they've found a book that is just right!

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

In this worksheet, children read along to a classic nursery rhyme, counting the M's as they go.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Young readers practice analyzing characters in a work of fiction with this five-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

As students practice reading independently, they’ll run into tricky words. Help them learn how to identify which books are “just right” for their reading level by recording how many tricky words they run into.