Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Enjoy The Raven by Edgar Allan poe in a whole new way with this printable mini-book version

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

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.

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

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

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building mini version of it!

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

These worksheets are all about the 180-degree rule, an important film technique. If your kid loves movies, then she'll love this chance to go behind the scenes.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the Wilhelm scream! Read about the famous Wilhelm scream on this worksheet with a research assignment.