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

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Get your child into the patriotic spirit with this fun song-based activity.

Travel back in time to discover the Cheyenne tribe. Young readers will learn all about Native American history with this worksheet.

Three full days of Christmas celebration? The holidays season is pretty amazing in Germany!

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

If you're good in Mexico, the Three Wise Men might come on Christmas Day and leave you candy and money!

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

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.

This shark is anything but fearsome, in fact, he's a bit adorable! Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, all about the whale shark.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

After completing the novel A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Use this short story with comprehension questions to help your students practice identifying cause and effect relationships in a fictional text.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

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

Encourage your child to read more by giving her a series of fun coloring pages that tell a story! She'll get to enjoy a Japanese folktale as she colors.

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!