Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Let this worksheet cause you to develop your cause-and-effect skills!

Learn about these lush, diverse biomes and practice spotting their inhabitants.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparative and Superlative.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Explore the sounds and patterns of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Discover the rhythm and rhyme of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Signal Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

Your students will use their imaginations 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.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

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.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe