Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

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

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

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

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Let joy and friendship keep you warm in the chilly winter with this charming reading comprehension worksheet!

Slide into reading comprehension with this wintery poem about sledding down a snowy hill!