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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

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!

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

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.

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

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

Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

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

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

These worksheets are all about the 180-degree rule, an important film technique. If your kid loves movies, then she'll love this chance to go behind the scenes.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

This worksheet helps guide kids along as they read their chosen book.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for the Wilhelm scream! Read about the famous Wilhelm scream on this worksheet with a research assignment.

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 Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?