2nd and 3rd Grade Reading Resources : Page 16

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

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.

Those tiny bumps on signs are one of the biggest inventions in modern history. Meet Louis Braille, a man who has helped millions of people worldwide.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

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

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

Help inspire your little writer with a fun prompt! They'll use their favorite song as fuel for beginning poetry analysis.

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!

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

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!

Let's make some nonsense! Using "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, a poem famous for its otherworldly wacky words, your child makes his own nonsense.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

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.

Kids who love space can learn all about the heroic Sally Ride, the first American woman to venture into space.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Join Joe and Kyla as they explore the Museum of Natural History. Read all about their adventure and then answer the questions.

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

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!