Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

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

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: We Read Together.

Your kindergarteners can help decide what happened in the story by carefully looking at each image and reading the parts of the story.

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

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

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

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 Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

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.

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 lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

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

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.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

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

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