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

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

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.

Venn diagrams aren't just a math tool; they make great charts for reading comprehension too!

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool weedy seadragon facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

In this worksheet students will be challenged to compare and contrast the effects of different weather phenomena.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Introduce your early reader to comprehension concepts. Cut out each setting and paste it next to the character from the same story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of a Book.

Put your students' reading skills to practice with this rock 'n' roll themed worksheet! Ask your students to read the story, then answer questions about the events in the story.

Put the sentences of the story in order from start to finish by numbering them. Read the story in the correct order when you're finished.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Integrate science and reading as students research and write about the causes and effects of certain actions in the environment.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.