Use this play planner to give your students a head start on writing their own play!

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

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

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Rhyming words are great for boosting phonics knowledge and teaching word families. This little make-it-yourself story book is packed with fun animal rhymes.

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!

With this printable mini book, kids will work on their reading comprehension by following the story about the hungry duck.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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.

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Oh no! The Princess and the Pea story has gotten all mixed up. Can you put the story in the right order?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of a Book.

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

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

As students practice reading independently, they’ll run into tricky words. Help them learn how to identify which books are “just right” for their reading level by recording how many tricky words they run into.

Venn diagrams aren't just a math tool; they make great charts for reading comprehension too!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of a Book.