Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading and writing worksheet.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your readers. Students review the book they're reading and keep track of new words as they go.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

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.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.