Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Reading Response Resources

Young readers will enjoy reflecting on a recent book with this engaging template.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

In this worksheet, kids will look at the labeled diagram of them monarch butterfly and then use what they have learned to finish the sentences.

Writing nonfiction can be a daunting task for newbies, but this note-taking sheet contains helpful prompts that keep your young writer on track.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Help your students prepare to write about their favorite book with this opinion writing organizer. This handy worksheet breaks down opinion writing into easy-to-follow steps that will have your kids writing persuasive essays with ease in no time.

Does an octopus have 8 tentacles? Test your fact and opinion identification skills with this colorful undersea adventure.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Show your child the benefits of making connections with the characters in a story with this introspective worksheet.

This worksheet asks first graders to read, write and draw all about summer!

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Connections with Our Feelings.

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

Learn about school uniforms around the world as students are going back to school!

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.

Get writing going with your own Three Billy Goats Gruff sequencing and writing worksheets.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Connections with Our Feelings.