Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Multiple-Meaning Words.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

Have your students record new words they come across on this bookmark and jot down what they think they mean.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Kids love nonsense, in case you haven't already noticed, and this wacky worksheet will work your wonderful wordsmith into a nonsense whirlwind.

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

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

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Let's make some nonsense! Using "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, a poem famous for its otherworldly wacky words, your child makes his own nonsense.

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

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.