Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn to Compare and Contrast.

Learn about the fascinating earthworms to boost your reading comprehension skills!

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Come explore the ocean blue as you dive into this aquatic nonfiction passage!

Will Jelly ever fly again? Find out by putting the sentences in sequential order from beginning to end.

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

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

This is the beginning of a story by The Brothers Grimm. Get together with your child to enjoy some classic literature with these beautiful story pages.

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for "The Ugly Duckling" will help build reading skills.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

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.

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

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.

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize 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.

Explore the sounds and patterns of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Your young historian will learn about the Iroquois League with this worksheet. He'll learn some important U.S. history as he practices his reading.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

What better time to learn how to rhyme? Try this worksheet; it'll be sweet! Your child can learn rhyme scheme using this famous Robert Frost poem.

Learn how frogs and butterflies transform as they grow into adults!

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Help your students to process and retain the information they learn from watching videos with this handy worksheet. Students will consider their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know.