Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Create Your Own Story.

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

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Learners will use their powers of deduction to determine what happens next in this playful sequencing worksheet.

Use this fairy tale story map to follow the details of your child's favorite stories and strengthen his reading skills.

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

This picture story is all mixed up! Use this worksheet to teach your students how to put plot events in order.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

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.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

Boost your first grader's reading comprehension by using a story map to outline a story visually.