Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction 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.

There's nothing better than a mug of hot chocolate! Your child can work on their writing skills as they describe how to make a great cup of cocoa.

Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

Get ready for the back to school season with a printable to-do list full of fall colors, a great start to an organized school year!

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Will Jelly ever fly again? Find out by putting the sentences in sequential order from beginning to end.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

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.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to be elected to Congress from the South, and was an inspiration to all involved in American politics.

Identify three facts from a work of nonfiction, then draw a picture and write a caption for each.

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.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

This great brain teaser challenges your child to unscramble president names and a riddle. It's a fun Presidents Day worksheet featuring Mount Rushmore!

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 Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Introduce children to American playwright Lorraine Hanberry, who was only 29 years old when she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play for "A Raisin in the Sun."

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.