Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

Take a look at some of the most common sight words and let this worksheet help you master them!

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.

Print out this minibook and use your imagination to illustrate a short version of this fun fairy tale!

This Reader's Theater activity is festive Thanksgiving fun for the whole family!

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

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

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

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!

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

Continue the illustrated story of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

This worksheet provides a sample table of content and comprehension questions to go along with them to help kids practice.

Experience The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from two different points of view!

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point of view.