Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

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.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Don't forget to pack a to-do list in your back to school binder! This helpful checklist will inspire excellent organizational skills in your child.

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.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Will Jelly ever fly again? Find out by putting the sentences in sequential order from beginning to end.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

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

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

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.

Put your students' reading skills to practice with this rock 'n' roll themed worksheet! Ask your students to read the story, then answer questions about the events in the story.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Put the sentences of the story in order from start to finish by numbering them. Read the story in the correct order when you're finished.