Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

Have your little monkey learn this nursery rhyme through repetition!

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.

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

Get your child into the patriotic spirit with this fun song-based activity.

Three full days of Christmas celebration? The holidays season is pretty amazing in Germany!

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

If you're good in Mexico, the Three Wise Men might come on Christmas Day and leave you candy and money!

What better way to introduce your child to letter writing than with a letter to a penpal. Encourage him to write back to Sakura all about his life in the U.S.

This shark is anything but fearsome, in fact, he's a bit adorable! Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, all about the whale shark.

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

Use this well-loved nursery rhyme to help your kindergarten students identify the letter A.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Encourage your child to read more by giving her a series of fun coloring pages that tell a story! She'll get to enjoy a Japanese folktale as she colors.

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

Does your child know the story of Cinderella? Sit down with your young reader and put these Cinderella story sequencing pictures back in order!

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

This Anne of Green Gables coloring page will excite your little fan, as she adds color to the energetic, redheaded character from the beloved book series!

As students begin to read independently, they may have questions about what they read. These questions should be encouraged! Have students record their questions about their reading or any unknown words on this graphic organizer.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.