Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Students will use content-specific vocabulary in context as they learn about the Revolutionary War.

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.

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Learn about these surprisingly diverse biomes, then test your biome and geography know-how with a desert-mapping activity.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

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.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

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

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

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.

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

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

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

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

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.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

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.