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

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.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

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

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!

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.

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.

Have a fun storytelling session in the spirit of Christmas! Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Read page six from The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Read about the nightingale's life in the palace, and color in the illustration.

Continue the illustrated story of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Find out what happens to the elves and the shoemaker in the final page of this classic story by the Brothers Grimm.

Read this final page of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. Be sure to color in the illustration to complete the story!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Quotes with Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

What will happen to Ebenezer Scrooge? Enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories with your little reader.

Young readers will love biting into this passage's cool piranha facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: A Script with Adverbs.

As students practice reading independently, they’ll run into tricky words. Help them learn how to identify which books are “just right” for their reading level by recording how many tricky words they run into.