Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Designed to give students practice on identifying script components, this worksheet is a great way to help students practice their writing fluency.

Get excited about going into nature as you read this passage about a camping trip!

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

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

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Your young readers are sure to enjoy this story about Ralph and the discovery he makes on his walk. This worksheet will help strengthen your students' comprehension skills as they answer questions about the text.

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

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

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

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.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.