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Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

Story Mapping Group Work

Nourish your child's inner writer with this lesson on three different forms of literature: poetry, prose, and drama. After going through some examples of each, students will demonstrate their knowledge by filling out bubble maps.

Poetry, Prose, and Drama, Oh My!

Challenge your student to write something out of the norm! Get creative and write a screenplay based on the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Write a Screenplay!

Oh no! Cuz-Cuz is in Roly's food! It's up to your child to figure out why by adding text to the characters' speech bubbles.

Brainzy Presents: The Amazing Adventures of Cuz-Cuz and Roly

So your students are going to write a narrative? Use these prewriting exercises to help them choose an idea and plan out their story.  

Narrative Prewriting Activities

What is a robot? What can robots do? Computer programmers tell robots what to do by creating a sequence of commands. In this lesson, students work in pairs to program a robot to act out the story from the mini story book *My Friend.*


My Robot Friend

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

Using Quotes in Writing

Use this lesson to teach your students how people survived in the New England colonies when they were first created.


The New England Colonies: Economy

What&#39;s going on here? What are these two saying? This scene could use your child&#39;s creativity to be complete!

Barber Shop Comic Strip

Help your ELs identify the characters and their dialogue in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Action! Students Create Reader’s Theater* lesson.

Characters and Dialogue

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to critically think about data. Use this lesson alongside Line Plots: Representing the Length of Classroom Items or as a stand alone lesson.

Understanding Line Plots

This lesson challenges young learners to add dialogue to their writing. Students will love using their creativity to write personal narratives. 

Narrative Writing: Adding Dialogue

Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.

Action! Students Create Reader's Theater

Figurative language can be difficult, especially for ELs. With the help of context clues and exposure to common idioms, it can be a piece of cake! Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the *Take a Walk with Idioms* lesson.

Working with Idioms

Students will have a blast creating their own cartoons and comics. This lesson provides an engaging method to help students demonstrate the use of quotation marks when writing.

Who Said It?

Let your fourth grader dig deep into their imagination to come up with their own adventure for A.J. and C.K., in this fill-in-the-blank comic strip.

Cat Comics: Joy Ride!

What if Cinderella’s stepsisters weren’t really evil? In this engaging lesson, you will introduce your students to multiple points of view and discuss how these different perspectives can change a reader’s experience.

Whose Point Is It Anyway?

Food and grocery shopping will take on a different perspective for students by the end of this activity. Students may even find themselves keeping a closer eye on their pennies! 

Shopping Time

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Make a 3-D Cartoon

Improve your child&#39;s reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children&#39;s story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan&rsquo;s novel <em>Esperanza Rising</em>!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Discussion Guide #3

Help your EL students find and record quotes as evidence in nonfiction texts with the help of introductory phrases and sentence frames. This can support the lesson Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts.

Quotes with Introductory Phrases

Your students will surely exclaim, "This is fun!" in response to this writing lesson. It covers topics that range from dialogue punctuation to sentence types, and will definitely help improve reading comprehension skills.

Punctuating Dialogue

In this lesson, students will use their creativity, a graphic organizer, and a fun story to learn about character analysis.  

It’s All in the Personality: Character Traits

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

Close Reading: Introduction

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Freeze Theater

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

The Place Value Game

Emphasize student understanding and reasoning! This lesson plan helps learners solve story problems using sense-making strategies. This can be used alongside the lesson Solving Word Problems or as a stand-alone lesson.

Reflect on the Context First!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

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