Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

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

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

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

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

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

In "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader meets a friendly shoemaker. This Grimm's fairy tale is told through colorable pictures and kid-friendly text.

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.

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: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

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

This story teaches students a moral and helps strengthen their sentence building skills.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation.