Engage your students in retelling stories and sharing their thoughts with this fun worksheet. After reading a book independently, young critics will tell what happens in the story and explain why they would or would not recommend it.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

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

John Henry has been a character used in American stories, folk tales and folk songs for many, many years. Color him in!

Read the eyewitness accounts of sightings at Russell Hotel, then do some comparing and contrasting using the Venn diagram at the bottom.

Give kids a fun way to practice using parts of speech with this fill-in-the-blank story template! You and your students will be in a fit of giggles as you listen to each other read their completed zoo-inspired stories aloud!

Ghosts have taken over! Halloween isn't supposed to be this scary! Your first grader needs to the night by finding all the hidden ghosts in this picture.

It's a long way from Alcatraz Island to the shore! Halloween ghosts are in hot pursuit, and this twisting maze isn't easy. Escape before the ghosts catch you!

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.

The ghosts are all waking up one by one! Ask your child to quickly fill in the missing letters in the coffin and run home before he wakes up the other ghosts.

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

This ghostly worksheet will help your young writer learn to use adjectives to help tell a colorful story! She'll fill in the blanks to set the mood.

Help a family of friendly ghosts move into their new home by tracing the dashed lines!

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

This haunted house coloring page features a spooky manor complete with ghosts, tombstones, and jack o' lanterns.

Bring all the little zombies, ghosts and goblins of the neighborhood to your doorstep with these printable Halloween party invitations.

Bust out the candy and the spooky ghosts! Can your kindergartener match each Halloween word to the correct picture?

What better way to celebrate Halloween than with a costume party? Gather all the ghosts and goblins of the neighborhood to celebrate!

This worksheet is all about the haunting at the Princess Theater. Kids will read eyewitness accounts and then write some critical thinking responses.

In this fun worksheet, read all about the Vodnici and then answer some critical thinking questions about the eyewitness accounts.

Division isn't scary ... unless it's surrounded by ghosts, pumpkins, and tombstones! Do some Halloween-themed division in this math worksheet.

A soldier meets a mysterious stranger in a graveyard. Could this be the dark figure that townsfolk have seen darting in and out of the shadows?

Edgar Allan Poe, Eldorado, poetry, reading comprehension, literary analysis, them, writing

Students will learn about the sword maker Muramasa Sengo, read through the eyewitness accounts, and decide who the trustworthy source is!

Color in Anansi, a crafty spider who spreads wisdom and knowledge wherever he goes.

Little ghosts and ghouls, be prepared for some monstrous alphabet practice! Learn your uppercase letter "A" with this funny monster.

Ghosts and ghouls, get in gear for multiplication! Your spooky student can stay sharp this Halloween with a times tables practice sheet.

For party planners everywhere, here's a gorgeous Halloween party invitation to help you guide ghosts and ghouls of the neighborhood to your doorstep.

This pumpkin game is fun for Halloween parties or as an after trick-or-treating activity. Play this pumpkin game with your little ghosts and ghouls.