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

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

This old Native American myth, The Raven Steals the Light, is the perfect story to spook -- but not scare -- kids this Halloween.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson.