Ready, set, brainstorm! Help your students prepare to write how-to books by generating ideas about topics that they know a lot about.

As students read informational books, encourage them to use sticky notes to record what they learn. Help them keep track of the information they learn with this helpful worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

What is going to happen next in this story? Become a storyteller with this fun comprehension worksheet!

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

This worksheet will have your child assemble and decorate a bookmark while reviewing story sequence as divided into beginning, middle, and end.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

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

Do you know the story of the Frog Prince? Help your little reader hone her basic reading comprehension skills with a fun storyboard exercise.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

A fun game for students, book bingo can either be played as a game to diversify student reading or as a way to have students begin interacting and talking about the types of reading materials they enjoy.

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

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

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

Writing to a penpal is a great way for your child to connect with kids in other parts of the world. Help him write back to Rahul about his own life in the U.S.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters.

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare with Adjectives.