Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

Enjoy part three of this Russian folk tale, Teremok. The little hideaway hut is getting crowded! Have your child read to you to find out what happens next.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Did you know mako sharks can leap 30 feet out of the water? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the mako shark!

Ready, set, brainstorm! Help your students prepare to write how-to books by generating ideas about topics that they know a lot about.

Have you ever heard of a lemon shark? Learn all about him, and why he was named that way, with a fun and informative coloring page!

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

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Sharing Facts from Nonfiction.

Read the poem, then draw a picture of each object that Old King Cole called for.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Sensory Details.

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

Write a Christmas wish list with this template, waiting to be sent off to Santa! Your little one can even practice handwriting and building sentences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learning About Text Features.

The "teremok", or the little hideaway, is becoming home to many animals! Enjoy part two of this Russian folk tale, and help your child build reading skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Learning About Literacy Concepts.

Share some special storytelling time during the holidays. Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

Is your child excited to write his letter to Santa? Here is a printable letter page, where he can write his Christmas wishes, and then color a picture!

This reading comprehension exercise combines important pre-reading skills with the fun of drawing.

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.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Connections with Our Feelings.

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

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