Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Sharing Facts from Nonfiction.

Show kids how to sort fact from fiction with this worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

It's always perfect weather for writing poems! Engage students in writing poetry with this fun activity. Go outside and start thinking creatively!

Get ready for the back to school season with a printable to-do list full of fall colors, a great start to an organized school year!

Pretend you're spending the holidays in France as you discover the Christmas customs and culinary delights of a country half a world away!

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

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

Will Jelly ever fly again? Find out by putting the sentences in sequential order from beginning to end.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

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.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

Sing the classic song "The Farmer in the Dell," and color in the worksheet at the same time.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!