These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

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

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.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

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

Meet the mythical Captain Stormalong, a sturdy sailor who's said to have conquered the high seas.

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

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

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

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: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.