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Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

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Close Reading in Fiction

Use this fall-themed Reader&rsquo;s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

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Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival Fun

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Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival

Build your reading stamina and comprehension skills with this worksheet based on “Ashputtel,” the Grimm Brothers’ version of another famous fairy tale.

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Extended Reading Comprehension: Ashputtel

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

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The Crow and the Jug

Encourage critical thinking and support your students&rsquo; literacy development by asking questions as they read the final chapters of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s Anne of Green Gables.

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Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #5

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

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Characters and Settings in Noun Phrases

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

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Word Bank: Emotion Charades

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

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Characters' Points of View

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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Picture Book Pumpkin Creations

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

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"The Three Little Pigs" Character Study

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

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Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #1

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

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Using My Own Words: The Frog Prince

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

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Making Connections with Texts Concept Web

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

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The Fox and the Crow

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

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Inferring with Quotes

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

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Be a Text Detective

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

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What Would the Character Do?

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

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"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

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Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

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.

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Story Slide

This lesson will help your students summarize short stories and describe how characters respond to challenges using a story map. Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for the Story Mapping Group Work lesson plan.

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Map a Story

Engage students in analysis by examining archetypes in fairy tales. Teach students to identify heroes and villains in fairy tales, examine patterns, and create their own fairy tales to express their knowledge of archetypes. 


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Analyzing Archetypes in Fairy Tales

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

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A Christmas Carol: Characters

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 19&ndash;25 of Anne of Green Gables.

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Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #3

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 26&ndash;33 of Lucy Maud Montgomery&rsquo;s Anne of Green Gables.

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Novel Study: Anne of Green Gables: Discussion Guide #4

Read this Mother Goose's Treasury classic, then answer the reading comprehension questions.

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Little Boy Blue

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

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Comparing and Contrasting Scary Stories

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

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Using Noun Phrases for Character & Setting

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

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