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

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your readers. Students review the book they're reading and keep track of new words as they go.

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

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 Plan: Map a Story.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Fictional Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

These worksheets, which cover social studies, reading comprehension and writing, teach kids all about the Great Race of Mercy.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who are the Key Characters?

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Asking Questions and Finding Answers.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

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