Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

Encourage your child to read more by giving her a series of fun coloring pages that tell a story! She'll get to enjoy a Japanese folktale as she colors.

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

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Students learn how to identify and locate text features with this informational writing worksheet.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Oh no! The Princess and the Pea story has gotten all mixed up. Can you put the story in the right order?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

As students practice reading independently, they’ll run into tricky words. Help them learn how to identify which books are “just right” for their reading level by recording how many tricky words they run into.

Venn diagrams aren't just a math tool; they make great charts for reading comprehension too!

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.

Arrr you ready for a treasure hunt story? These pirates have gotten their story all jumbled! Help them put it back in order.

Share a story with your child! With this five-page classic folktale, she'll get to color the illustrations as she hones her reading skills.

Give your child a fun series of coloring pages that tell a story! She can read "The Mouse's Marriage" as she colors the illustrations.

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

This reading worksheet highlights important vocabulary words and the main purpose of a text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Compare and Contrast Fictional Characters.

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

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

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.

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

Do you know why hammerhead sharks have such a funny-shaped head? Here's a fun and informational shark coloring page for you and your child to share!

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

Give your young writer a chance to practice procedural writing by sharing how to complete a simple recipe of their choosing. Having students consider each step of a process sets them up for success when writing how-to books.

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

This worksheet teaches first graders how to write headings for informational texts.

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

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.