This worksheet prompts kids to write down what they remember about the beginning, middle, and end of the stories they are reading.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Abbreviations help keep things short and sweet! Give your second graders practice identifying common abbreviations with this fun matching activity in which students draw lines to match words to their abbreviations.

Words that end with Y can be tricky, but that's no reason to cry! This fun worksheet combines reading and coloring to help your young students learn how a Y at the end of a word can make an I or an E sound.

Ask your readers to keep track of new, interesting, or unknown words with this vocabulary tracker. Students will use the tracker to write the word, the sentence they found it in, and a short definition.

It's all about that growth mindset! Young artists will step out of their comfort zone by creating art with their feet instead of their hands, and then reflecting on this experience in a short paragraph.

Help your students master the ending Y sound with this fun practice worksheet. By sorting words into two columns, young readers learn that the final Y sound can make a long E sound, as in baby, or a long I sound, as in fly.

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the main idea the author wanted to communicate by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

Challenge your young students to read words with many different vowel patterns with this fun worksheet. Combining reading and coloring, this activity is a fun way to practice differentiating between long and short vowel sounds.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

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.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Mastering the silent E will help your students build their reading chops. This worksheet encourages students along by helping them visualize how adding an E can change a short vowel word to a long vowel word.

Imagine racing along the shoreline with the wind in this second- and third-grade poetry comprehension worksheet!

This smiling sloth is waiting for your child to write some sentences about him. Create a short paragraph using the picture and word web for inspiration.

This short nonfiction text will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words—and they'll have fun learning all about the life cycle of a chicken in the process!

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

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.