A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.

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

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.

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

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

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

This worksheet gives kids a place to list all the books they've read!

Is it a tiger or a shark? Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, sure to satisfy any shark fanatic!

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personal Timeline.

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

During this activity, students will learn about Japan's capital city, Tokyo and create their own travel brochure.

Sing the classic song "The Farmer in the Dell," and color in the worksheet at the same time.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

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.

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.