Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

This rubric can be used with any lesson where students are learning or practicing fluency.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

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

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.