Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of a Book.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Read this timeless poem by Jane Taylor aloud to your child. Work together to identify and circle the rhyming words.

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

This worksheet is designed to help students understand what is a heading is and practice writing them.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

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.

Collect your favorite summer quotes from friends and family in this Say What? sheet.

Everyone loves this silly classic! Read the poem, then answer a question at the end.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Students read a poem and then record their evening routine in this delightful writing exercise.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

This template encourages thoughtful, engaged reading as children practice making predictions as they go.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

In this worksheet, students learn how the Sit-In movement began, and the impact it had on both the region and the country.

This book boosts reading and phonics skills and helps your young reader learn a few of the big question words: what, where, will, want, and why.

Help your student's reading comprehension with this short story and clarification questions.

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!