Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.

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.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

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.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Your child can make her own storybook with this series of Japanese folktale coloring pages!

Read page 4 of the beloved tale "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, abridged for younger readers.

Find out what happens next with page 5 of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Get all the Tasmanian devil facts on this worksheet, from what they eat to how they got their name.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Read a classic Aesop's fable about the importance of honesty! Your child will get to practice punctuating this passage with periods.

This holiday season, enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories with your little reader.

This holiday season enjoy one of the most well-known Christmas stories with your little reader.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Think back to your favorite tall tale characters and talk with your little reader about the different traits that made them hyperbolic legends.