Have some fun with haiku! Practice syllable counting and creative writing by coming up with funny haiku poems for April Fools' Day.

Use an open-ended graphic organizer to help your students identify the problem and solution in three stories.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

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.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

Mary, Queen of Scots, was a fascinating woman in history. Learn a bit more about her life with this history worksheet.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

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.

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

To deepen your students’ understanding of dramas, have them utilize their understanding of the key terms to compare and contrast dramas to other genres. They will use information found in a Venn diagram to complete a paragraph frame.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Get ready for the back to school season with a printable to-do list full of fall colors, a great start to an organized school year!

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

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

Don't forget to pack a to-do list in your back to school binder! This helpful checklist will inspire excellent organizational skills in your child.

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

Did you know the basking shark is the second largest living fish? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the Basking Shark!

Our silkworm facts help your little one understand more about these special invertebrates. He'll read about their life stages and answer some questions.

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

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.