Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

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

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.

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

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

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

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features and Their Purposes.

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.

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

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

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

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

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Stay on course in this puzzle by following only the tundra biome animals.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Analyzing Primary Sources with Past Tense Verbs.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.