Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

This reading response worksheet gives the "evil" stepsisters a chance to defend themselves.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

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

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

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.

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.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

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.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

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

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

As students become independent readers, they may have questions about what they read. Instead of taking the questions as they come up, encourage students to write them down using this handy worksheet.

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

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

Do you know how to haiku? This haiku worksheet gives your budding poet practice with counting syllables and noticing the role of rhythm in poetry.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.