Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Similarities.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Christmas stationary adds some class to your letters to Santa or holiday greetings. Print your own Christmas stationary with this holiday printable.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

There's a happy-looking, big-eared bat and some fun facts on this coloring page! And it's a great way to start a talk about endangered animals with your child.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare & Contrast Pictures.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Internal & External Character Traits.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

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

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Would you decorate your Christmas tree with spider webs? Learn a wacky Christmas fun fact as you reflect on holiday traditions.

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.