Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

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.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

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

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

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.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building mini version of it!

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

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.

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

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.