Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your readers. Students review the book they're reading and keep track of new words as they go.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

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

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

Inspiration is a blank canvas! All we know about this man is he's wearing a frontiersman hat, so let your child develop a set of character traits for him.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.