First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of a Book.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

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

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

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

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

Use this resource to support your students in discussing and writing a first person narrative. They will read a paragraph written as a third person narrative, and they will describe it as a first person narrative using a graphic organizer.

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

After reading a short text about a new puppy, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Boost your kindergartener's reading confidence with this cute seesaw story book that she can color and assemble herself.

Reading is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about deriving meaning from the text! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them draw and write about their favorite parts.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

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

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

Kids recall important details from a story in this listening comprehension worksheet.

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.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.