Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Keep rolling along with Kolobok, the main character in this well-known Russian folk tale. Your child will love coloring as she builds reading skills!

Help students turn instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into a cohesive piece of procedural writing. Using transition words is the key to successful how-to writing!

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

These storyboxes guide kids through the most important components of a story: The beginning, the middle, and the end.

There's nothing better than a mug of hot chocolate! Your child can work on their writing skills as they describe how to make a great cup of cocoa.

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

These events are all mixed up! Have your kid practice sequencing by correctly ordering these scenes and help the plane take off on time.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare with Adjectives.

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

As students read informational books, encourage them to use sticky notes to record what they learn. Help them keep track of the information they learn with this helpful worksheet.

What is going to happen next in this story? Become a storyteller with this fun comprehension worksheet!

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

This worksheet will have your child assemble and decorate a bookmark while reviewing story sequence as divided into beginning, middle, and end.

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.

Do you know the story of the Frog Prince? Help your little reader hone her basic reading comprehension skills with a fun storyboard exercise.

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.

A fun game for students, book bingo can either be played as a game to diversify student reading or as a way to have students begin interacting and talking about the types of reading materials they enjoy.

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters.

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare with Adjectives.

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.

Reading is awesome! It’s even more fun when you’re reading about subjects and stories that interest you. Help students find books they love in this fun activity.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.