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.

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

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Meet the legendary John Henry, a famous character from a classic tall tale! Learn the difference between fact and fiction with this fun reading sheet.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed 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.

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 resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

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

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

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

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.

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

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.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

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

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

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