After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

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

This Cinderella story map is ready to keep the details of a classic and beloved fairy tale in order. As your child thinks of who is in the story, and…

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fairy Tale Character Traits.

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

Use this Venn diagram graphic to help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting settings.

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

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

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Use this resource to teach your students to pick out character actions from the text as they answer questions.

The Tain, formally known as Tain Bo Cuailnge, is an epic from early Irish literature. Read The Tain for kids in this worksheet, and learn about its characters.

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Use this helpful worksheet to support your students as they develop their question asking skills by pretending to interview characters from beloved fictional texts.

Have your little ones test their knowledge of "Rapunzel" with this whimsical story map, which includes space for them to write the problem, solution, setting, and more.

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

Color in one of the most famous characters in fairytale history: Little Red Riding Hood!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Focus on the Differences.

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

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!