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.

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

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

What is it like to be an ant? After reading Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg, your students will know!

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

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

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

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Reading is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about deriving meaning from the text! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them draw and write about their favorite parts.

Let your young reader review the book as they go with this personalized bookmark. Cut out the bookmark and fold it in half to spice up the reading experience!

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Fluent readers are able to derive meaning from the text and make connections! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them share how it connects to other books they've read.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Asking Deeper Questions.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

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

Meet the mythical Captain Stormalong, a sturdy sailor who's said to have conquered the high seas.

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

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

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.