This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

This exercise facilitates meaningful interactions between partners by giving each one different pieces of necessary information to explain the attributes of a shape.

Let’s give them something to talk about! Use this resource with your students to facilitate meaningful interactions between partners by giving each one different pieces of necessary information to find the area of a shape.

Use this language routine to elicit meaningful conversation among your 2nd grade students! Will students be able to ask their partners for the information they need to name that shape?

Use this language routine to elicit meaningful conversation among your students! Will students be able to solve the problem by asking their partner for the information they need?

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

Spark your student's imagination with this fun and creative writing prompt which focuses on summer, and get more summer writing ideas.

It's time to brainstorm! Use this worksheet to help budding writers generate a list of ideas and topics for future stories, as well as give students a chance to practice their letter and word spacing.

This graphic organizer is a helpful tool for learners to gather and organize key information as they research an important person of their choice.

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.

Help students get the most out of their reading with this super helpful question and answer tracker. Before students read nonfiction books, have them make a list of information they’d like to learn. As they read, have students track the information on thi

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

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.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.