Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

This is the beginning of a story by The Brothers Grimm. Get together with your child to enjoy some classic literature with these beautiful story pages.

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for "The Ugly Duckling" will help build reading skills.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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!

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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.

Explore the sounds and patterns of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

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.

Explore the sights and sounds of the prairie with this fourth- and fifth-grade reading-comprehension activity!

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Enjoy Rudyard Kipling's story "The Beginnings of the Armadillos", where your little one will answer questions and enjoy some coloring pages!

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

Read this version of The Wild Hunt with your little boy or ghoul this Halloween, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Learn to retell events in your own words with the help of this adorable story!

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.