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

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

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

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Scary Story Elements.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.