Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Young writers will traverse the story mountain to create a narrative plot of their own! Students will consider various story elements, including characters, setting, climax, problem, and solution with this great visual aid.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

The next time you're having story time, be sure to use this fairy tale graphic organizer to boost comprehension!

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

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

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

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

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

Use this Venn diagram graphic to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting settings.

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order.