This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Sharing Ideas with a Friend.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: We Read Together.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use this glossary with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

This worksheet helps guide kids along as they read their chosen book.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.