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.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

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.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

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.

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.

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

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

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.

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.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

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.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.