Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Learn some of the common Morse code prosigns with this fun activity!

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

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

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.

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

Both of these animals have big ears! Your child will look at the pictures of unusual animals in this worksheet and try to learn some new things about them.

Our silkworm facts help your little one understand more about these special invertebrates. He'll read about their life stages and answer some questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Nonfiction Text Features.

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

There's a happy-looking, big-eared bat and some fun facts on this coloring page! And it's a great way to start a talk about endangered animals with your child.

Students will read more about our very own American Loch Ness monster. Then, theyÃll cut out a picture of each and paste it in its correct spot in the map.

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

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

In this worksheet, students choose a nonfiction text and practice their illustration and caption writing skills.

If your little one loves to read about the creepy creatures, he'll enjoy this spooky page about the Jersey Devil.

Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.