Did you know that you could celebrate Christmas in December and then fly to Russia to celebrate the same holiday in January?

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

Can you imagine celebrating Christmas in the summer? That's what the people in New Zealand do!

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

Pretend you're spending the holidays in France as you discover the Christmas customs and culinary delights of a country half a world away!

Have you ever heard of Julbock, the Christmas goat, or Tomten, the gift-giving Christmas elf? Learn how to celebrate Christmas in Sweden!

Learn all about Sinterklaas (sound familiar?) and the fun traditions that kids in the Netherlands look forward to every Christmas!

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

Help your young students learn the importance of transition words in this fun activity. By filling in the missing words, students discover how transition words help structure procedural writing.

Discover how our friends across the pond celebrate the holiday season!

Get inspired by the traditions of the Philippines this holiday season!

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Writing to a penpal is a great way for your child to connect with kids in other parts of the world. Help him write back to Rahul about his own life in the U.S.

This worksheet teaches first graders the important role that diagrams play in informational text.

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.