Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

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.

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

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

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

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

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.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Let your young reader review the book as they go with this personalized bookmark. Cut out the bookmark and fold it in half to spice up the reading experience!

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Have a fun storytelling session in the spirit of Christmas! Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.