Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

After finishing the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, give students a chance to watch a movie adaptation and compare the written and visual forms of the story.

Inspiration is a blank canvas! All we know about this man is he's wearing a frontiersman hat, so let your child develop a set of character traits for him.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

This Mary Had a Little Lamb coloring page depicts a heartwarming scene from the famous nursery rhyme.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun pet-themed worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Reading fluency is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about finding meaning and making connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share about how it connects to their own lives.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Dictionaries & Definitions.

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Color in one of the most famous characters in fairytale history: Little Red Riding Hood!

Young historians get to know the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, with this history and civics crossword puzzle.

Introduce young learners to the inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, a barrier-breaking NASA mathematician, with this engaging mini book activity.

Children listen to a well-loved lullaby as they count the uppercase and lowercase T's in this literacy worksheet.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

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

Valentine's Day isn't just about handing out paper cards and heart-shaped candies -- it's about showing your family and friends how much you love them!

Read a simple tale about pirates and stolen treasure, then chart the story on a map.