Bears, camels, wombats, and more! Draw a picture of your favorite animal from this poem.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

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.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Get reading going with your own Three Billy Goats Gruff story booklet.

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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.

Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Your young readers are sure to enjoy this story about Ralph and the discovery he makes on his walk. This worksheet will help strengthen your students' comprehension skills as they answer questions about the text.

Little readers will love a fun storyboard activity with the three little pigs! Re-tell this classic story with these cut-out pictures of scenes from the story.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

This reading response worksheet gives the "evil" stepsisters a chance to defend themselves.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

Use this handy worksheet to help students practice identifying the parts of a fiction text.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

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

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