Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

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

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

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.

Kids research the constitutional amendments that were added after the Bill of Rights with this cool worksheet.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

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.

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

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.