Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

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

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

One thing every culture has in common is a set of folk tales and myths. Check out a little bit of kappa myth with this coloring page.

Clues can help us make predictions! Students will read a story about Molly, find the clues, and use those clues to predict what Molly will do next.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Tap into your students’ creativity by challenging them to create an infographic using content from their reading!

Fee Fi Fo Fum! Take your young reader on an adventure and build basic comprehension skills while reading the classic fairy tale, "Jack and the Beanstalk."

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Meet the mythical Captain Stormalong, a sturdy sailor who's said to have conquered the high seas.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

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

Learn about first Lady Dolley Madison with this history worksheet, complete with some reading comprehension exercises.

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use this exercise with your students as they work through the realms of realism and fantasy.

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.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

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

How well do you know the Rumpelstiltskin story? Hone comprehension skills with this fun fairy tale mix up.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.