Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

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.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

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

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

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.

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.