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.

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

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

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

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

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

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

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

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

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.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

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

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Help your young reader hone his critical thinking skills with this worksheet that challenges him to write his own book review.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

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.

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.

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

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

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

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

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.