Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

A great way to introduce nonfiction to early readers, this Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz biography breaks down important information into readable passages.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Calling all chefs! This menu needs a new sandwich item. Can you come up with a delicious and innovative concoction?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

You only get something out of it if you put something in! Have your child try five-part challenge, with the final goal being memorizing a poem word for word.

Here's a language arts worksheet that's sure to boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

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

Use these picture cards to introduce your students to 16 common theme words.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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.

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: Who Is Telling the Story?

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.