Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

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.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.