Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Get caught up in the drama of "Casey at the Bat" with this reader's theater script.

Use this play planner to give your students a head start on writing their own play!

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!

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

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

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.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Read a classic Aesop's fable about the importance of honesty! Your child will get to practice punctuating this passage with periods.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

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!

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Help your little bookworm get to know the layout of a table of contents! Learners deconstruct this sample table of contents by answering the questions.

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

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

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

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.