Every living thing needs a home to survive! Many animals have unique and interesting ways of building their homes.

Give your young writer a chance to practice procedural writing by sharing how to complete a simple recipe of their choosing. Having students consider each step of a process sets them up for success when writing how-to books.

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

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

After reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, have students reflect on the novel and record their responses to these post-reading writing prompts!

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

The next time you're having story time, be sure to use this fairy tale graphic organizer to boost comprehension!