Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

In part two of "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader finds the shoemaker surprised to see fancy and freshly-made shoes in his workshop.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

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

Familiarize your child with some simple sight words and rhymes with this coloring page of "Hot Cross Buns".

Give your wild child this werewolf story to read this Halloween. He'll have a spooky story to share with friends, and get some reading practice, too!

Share some special storytelling time during the holidays. Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

Track first impressions of a text and kickstart background knowledge using this efficient organizer. This resource goes along with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Read this version of The Wild Hunt with your little boy or ghoul this Halloween, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

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

Oh no! The Princess and the Pea story has gotten all mixed up. Can you put the story in the right order?

A soldier meets a mysterious stranger in a graveyard. Could this be the dark figure that townsfolk have seen darting in and out of the shadows?

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Enjoy part two of this fun Russian folk tale, about Kolobok the little ball of dough, created accidentally by an old woman.

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Wild and Windy Weather.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

Previewing text will never be the same! Students can use this resource to track key observations and revisit them to add new insights. Use this organizer with the Picture Walk-A-Preview lesson plan.