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.

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.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Put a silly spin on a sad holiday by tickling your funny bone with some calaveras literarias.

Get excited about the holiday season, and get your little ones to send off their Christmas wishes to the North Pole, with a "Dear Santa" template letter!

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

The more books you read about a topic, the more you learn! This worksheet helps students compare and contrast information they learn from multiple books about the same topic.

Help students learn the relationship between illustrations and stories with this worksheet that allows students to become artists.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

This What I Want for Christmas worksheet is a great template for letters to Santa. Try our What I Want for Christmas worksheet with your child this winter.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

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

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

Enjoy part two of this fun Russian folk tale, about Kolobok the little ball of dough, created accidentally by an old woman.

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.

This "Baa Baa Black Sheep" coloring page encourages your child to think of the simple sounds, songs, and sight words in the nursery rhyme.

Can students use drawings to depict new information? Find out in this worksheet.

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

It's always perfect weather for writing poems! Engage students in writing poetry with this fun activity. Go outside and start thinking creatively!

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.

Children learn about the history of the cycling event, one of the oldest sports in modern Olympic Games history.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Pictures to Read Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

This printable book all about a pig will encourage kindergarteners to read along with the story.

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Conclude a Story.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters