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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.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

When it comes to reading, it’s all about inferring. Kids can learn how to use clues in a text to understand a character’s thoughts or follow the action, in this book about jumping to conclusions.

Read Between the Lines

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

Character Puppets

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Protagonists and Supporting Characters

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Be a Text Detective

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.

Set the Scene

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Conflict

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Comparing Characters: Haunted Hotel

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

Cause and Effect With Caroline Carrot

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Comparing Characters

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

Norse Myths: Sif's Golden Hair

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Character Reactions

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Characters' Points of View

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Character Paper Dolls

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

What Would the Character Do?

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Story Rollercoaster

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Feelings Map

This lesson will help your students summarize short stories and describe how characters respond to challenges using a story map. Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support lesson for the Story Mapping Group Work lesson plan.

Map a Story

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Questions, Anyone? Ask Your Way to Reading Comprehension

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Step Inside the Story!

This winter-themed lesson plan, which incorporates the book *Tree of Cranes* by Allen Say, teaches students about Japanese traditions and customs. They will review the basic elements of a narrative story, and then write their own narratives about a special event or moment in their life.

Tree of Cranes

Children will read this Reader&#39;s Theater script, then answer&nbsp;questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Reader’s Theater: Fourth of July

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

The Fox and the Crow

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your child. She reviews the book and keeps track of new words she's learning as she goes.

Cool Bookmarks 2

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

Comparing and Contrasting Scary Stories

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character&rsquo;s actions with their emotions.

Character Emotion Match Cards

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Character Emotion Descriptions

As students read&nbsp;R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s <em>Wonder</em>, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book&#39;s characters.

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