These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Learning how to figure out the trickier words is an essential tool for readers of all levels. This fun worksheet helps students practice using context clues and pictures to decode tricky words and improve their reading fluency skills.

Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

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.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: How Pictures Can Help Us Read.

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.