Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

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

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

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

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

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

Do you and your kid know when and how movie theater candy came into existence? Read about concessions that date back to the beginning of movies.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Your young historian will learn about the Iroquois League with this worksheet. He'll learn some important U.S. history as he practices his reading.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

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

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

In this thoughtful culture and writing activity, children will read about each of the tenets of Kwanzaa, then reflect on what these mean to them.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Help kids get familiar with the process of writing a thank you note, so they'll never complain about writer's block again.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Explore the most famous rock pile in the history of the world!

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.