The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Maintaining a reading log is a fun way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Students will keep track of their month-by-month reading stamina and practice their bar graphing with this reading log worksheet.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

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.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Discover the inner workings of basic earth science in this worksheet on temperature.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.

Put the events of the story in sequential order from what happened first to what happened last. Then read the story to learn more about Rocky!

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Learn the difference between fact and opinion! Your child will build basic logic skills as they decide which statements are facts and which are not.

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

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.