Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

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.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

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!

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

Meet the mythical Captain Stormalong, a sturdy sailor who's said to have conquered the high seas.

Not all predictions are created equal. In this worksheet, students seek to identify the events that are most likely to happen while explaining their thinking.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

This worksheet gives kids a place to list all the books they've read!

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this handy bookmark to help your students practice good reading habits while keeping track of what they read.

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.

Get mischievous during story time and read the story of "Rumpelstiltskin", abridged for your first grader.

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop and practice reading comprehension by sharing about books they’ve read. After taking turns telling a partner all about their chosen books, students will write or draw about what their partner shared.

Have your little monkey learn this nursery rhyme through repetition!

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

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

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.