Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

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.

Get into a mad scientist state of mind with this fun science fiction writing prompt! Your child will imagine and describe a magical potion.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

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

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries.

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: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

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

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

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

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

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

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

This mix-and-match lists examples of natural resources. Kids can connect the natural resource with the resulting product.

Read the famous quote by Gandhi, then write a short paragraph about the change you would like to be.

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!

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

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.