What better way to introduce your child to letter writing than with a letter to a penpal. Encourage him to write back to Sakura all about his life in the U.S.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Let's Read It With Expression!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

For October (or just for kids who love scary stories!), here's a great telling of Bancho Sarayashiki, one of Japan's most famous ghost stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Answering "Why" Questions.

Sing a sweet song about birds with this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.

We all love a good story, but sometimes it's hard to keep track of what's important. Teach your kid how to map a story with this fun and engaging worksheet.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

Color the nightingale in honor of the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

As students learn to read independently, they’ll undoubtedly run into words they have trouble decoding. This worksheet helps students to reflect on the tricky words they run into and how they can decode them.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

Enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories, "A Christmas Carol", with your little reader.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

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

This worksheet teaches first graders the important role that diagrams play in informational text.

Find out what happens next with page 5 of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Share a classic Christmas poem with your little one. They'll get to color illustrations to The Night Before Christmas as she reads along!

Christmas is around the corner, and kids sure have a lot to ask from Santa! Here is a printable template to help your child send his Christmas wishes.

As students read independently, they’ll run into words they have trouble decoding. Have your kids cut out these fun “tricky word” bookmarks to help them to recognize and record these words so that they can practice decoding them!

You may not know of Dr. Jonas Salk, but your life has certainly been affected by him! This famous scientist created the polio vaccine.

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Have students practice reading fluency by reflecting on what they’ve read using this fun worksheet. After reading independently, students are encouraged to share what they’ve read, ask questions, and make predictions.