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Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

Author’s Purpose: The Princess and the Pea

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Emily's Turtle

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.

Reading Report: My Favorite Part

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Reading Strategies: Determining Importance

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Dialogue and Actions to Show Character Traits

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

Historical Heroes: Jesse Owens

Reading fluency is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about finding meaning and making connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share about how it connects to their own lives.

Reading Report: Text-to-Self Connections

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Point of View Pronouns

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.

Fairy Tale Lessons: Tortoise and the Hare

This is a great introductory lesson to teach students about the importance of illustrations when reading. It can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Introducing Reader's Workshop lesson plan.

Using Pictures to Read Words

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Point of View Practice: Titanic

This lesson will provide your ELs with support as they learn about nouns and practice retelling a story with a 5 W's graphic organizer. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Using the 5 W's

Get fourth and fifth graders&#39; creativity flowing with this personification worksheet!&nbsp;

Complete Sentences Using Personification

Teach your students about picture walks as a strategy to understand the author's purpose in a fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support for the Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text lesson.

Using Picture Walks to Examine Purpose

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

Point of View Practice: Life Cycle of a Frog

From labeled pictures to glossaries, there are lots of different nonfiction text features for students to learn about. In this lesson, students hunt for text features while learning how they provide meaning and present information. 

Text Feature Detective

Use this resource about a girl who puts herself in another person’s shoes. Your students will identify the point of view in which the story is told, and they will determine their own point of view about parts of the text.

Point of View: In Someone Else’s Shoes

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut to enter space! Use this lesson plan to help your students get to know this prominent scientist, and determine what makes her an influencial person.

A Biography of Mae Jemison

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish their own point

Point of View Practice: The Tsunami of 2004

Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced  meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience. 

Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Determining a Character's Motivation

Students will read a short fictional story and discuss why the author included certain details and words. Use this lesson to help your students navigate parts of fictional text to determine the author's purpose!  

Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Using a Timeline: Barack Obama 

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Using Text Features in Nonfiction

Knock, knock! It’s the U.S. Census Bureau! In this lesson plan, students analyze primary sources in the form of census data to do research that helps them answer questions about famous people and the time period during which they lived.

Researching the Past Using Primary Sources

Get to know figurative language like the back of your hand with this fifth-grade learning game!

Dino Bones: Using Figurative Language in Sentences

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

Using Noun Phrases for Character & Setting

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

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