A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Your young readers are sure to enjoy this story about Ralph and the discovery he makes on his walk. This worksheet will help strengthen your students' comprehension skills as they answer questions about the text.

Little readers will love a fun storyboard activity with the three little pigs! Re-tell this classic story with these cut-out pictures of scenes from the story.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

This reading response worksheet gives the "evil" stepsisters a chance to defend themselves.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

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

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!

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

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

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.