Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

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

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

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

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

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.

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

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

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

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Use this worksheet as a way for students to practice retelling a familiar story using their own words and images.

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

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

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!

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

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.

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.

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the story.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.