Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

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

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

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

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

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

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.