As students read informational books, encourage them to use sticky notes to record what they learn. Help them keep track of the information they learn with this helpful worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

What is going to happen next in this story? Become a storyteller with this fun comprehension worksheet!

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

Inspire your students to create a story using elements of fictional text! Budding writers will choose from the list of characters, settings, problems, and transition frames to help jump-start the creative process.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

After reading the poem, draw a picture of the two main characters.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun pet-themed worksheet.

These pictures have a lot to say! The animals in this worksheet don't talkÃbut they can tell you a lot about what they're like by the way they look.

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the story.

Join Joe and Kyla as they explore the Museum of Natural History. Read all about their adventure and then answer the questions.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

Did you know that you could celebrate Christmas in December and then fly to Russia to celebrate the same holiday in January?