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.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

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.

Teach your child about an endangered species with this information page, all about the Forest Owlet. They can color as they read some interesting facts.

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.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

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.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

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

If you're looking for an exciting genre, then mystery might just be the one for you!

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.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

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.