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: All About Sequencing.

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Sharing Ideas with a Friend.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

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

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

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

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

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Is It Little Red?

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

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

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Use this glossary with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.