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

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed 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!

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Reading Fluently.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

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.

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

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

Mary Lou Retton tumbled into America's heart in the 1988 Olympics. Read about her Olympic victories in this worksheet, then complete a short reading exercise.

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

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

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

Use this exercise to teach your students to identify nouns and associated pronouns in captions. Then, challenge them to create captions for illustrations.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Celebrate the season by reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Then challenge your young reader to fill in this graphic organizer chart.