Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

You decide what's happening on the page by drawing and writing it in!

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

In this worksheet, children explore what it means to be aware of their emotions, drawing inspiration from the turtle.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

For little private eyes everywhere, here's a chance to play detective! Your child will use writing and drawing skills to finish this fun and furry comic strip.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

If your child needs help understanding big ideas and concepts, have her tackle this helpful reading comprehension worksheet.

Help students organize their ideas and structure their written responses with the PEEL strategy!

Dig into main ideas and details as you read about salsa gardens in this engaging worksheet!

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.