Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: How Pictures Can Help Us Read.

Assess your students' read-alouds with this versatile rubric.

This rubric can be used with any lesson where students are learning or practicing fluency.

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

Maintaining a reading log is a fun way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Students will keep track of their month-by-month reading stamina and practice their bar graphing with this reading log worksheet.

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop by picking books to read independently. Students will choose three books that look appealing and read one page. If there are five or less words that are tricky to read, they've found a book that is just right!

Reading is awesome! It’s even more fun when you’re reading about subjects and stories that interest you. Help students find books they love in this fun activity.

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!

Use this resource for fluency practice.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

In this worksheet, second and third graders will practice two important reading fluency strategies: rereading and rereading aloud.

As students learn to read independently, they’ll undoubtedly run into words they have trouble decoding. This worksheet helps students to reflect on the tricky words they run into and how they can decode them.

As students practice reading independently, they’ll run into tricky words. Help them learn how to identify which books are “just right” for their reading level by recording how many tricky words they run into.

Learning how to figure out the trickier words is an essential tool for readers of all levels. This fun worksheet helps students practice using context clues and pictures to decode tricky words and improve their reading fluency skills.

Fluent readers know how to tackle tricky words. Help young readers build their reading muscles by practicing identifying and decoding challenging words with this worksheet.

Reading is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about deriving meaning from the text! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them draw and write about their favorite parts.

Reading fluency is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about finding meaning and making connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share about how it connects to their own lives.

Fluent readers are able to derive meaning from the text and make connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share how it connects to other books they've read.

As students become independent readers, they may have questions about what they read. Instead of taking the questions as they come up, encourage students to write them down using this handy worksheet.

Have students practice reading fluency by reflecting on what they’ve read using this fun worksheet. After reading independently, students are encouraged to share what they’ve read, ask questions, and make predictions.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Help your students with their reading fluency using this fun worksheet.

Kindergarteners and first graders will read a simple story, then identify the picture that matches, in this early literacy worksheet.

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Use this handy bookmark to help your students practice good reading habits while keeping track of what they read.