Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

Ready, set, brainstorm! Help your students prepare to write how-to books by generating ideas about topics that they know a lot about.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Compound Sentences in Nonfiction.

Share some special storytelling time during the holidays. Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

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

Enjoy part two of this fun Russian folk tale, about Kolobok the little ball of dough, created accidentally by an old woman.

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

Think mom is challenging? Try the media! With this worksheet, your child can pretend to be president and answer the media's tough questions.

It's always perfect weather for writing poems! Engage students in writing poetry with this fun activity. Go outside and start thinking creatively!

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Children learn about the history of the cycling event, one of the oldest sports in modern Olympic Games history.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Special effects in movies have been around almost as long as movies themselves. These worksheets introduce kids to the early filmmaker, Georges Méliès.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Who Is Telling the Story?

After completing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, students reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these post-reading response prompts.

Get to know Arlen in this reading comprehension worksheet,

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.

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

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Mary Lou Retton tumbled into America's heart in the 1988 Olympics. Read about her Olympic victories in this worksheet, then complete a short reading exercise.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

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

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.