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Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Close Reading Checklist

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Story Elements in Two Fiction Texts

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Making Inferences to Interpret Fiction

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

Vocabulary Cards: Summarizing with Sequence Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Sentence Structures for Summarizing

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

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Characters from Two Fiction Texts

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Timeline Organizer

Practice summarizing a numerical data set with this one-page statistics worksheet!&nbsp;

Summarizing Data From a Frequency Table

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Comparing Two Stories

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

Picture Clues

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Literature Sleuth

Good readers analyze texts by looking at similarities and differences. Use this lesson to teach your students to compare and contrast the story elements of two fiction texts.

Finding Similarities and Differences

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Scripts and Plays

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Organize Your Questions

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Inferences & Evidence

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Compare Story Elements

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Sub-Genre Specific Traits Across Texts

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

My Vacation

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Fiction to Fact

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Compare and Contrast Texts: Same Sub-Genre

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Comparing Texts: Separate Traits of a Sub-Genre

All fictional stories have story elements but they sure can differ between stories. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the story elements of two fictional stories and document their findings in a graphic organizer.   

Using Story Elements to Compare and Contrast Fiction Texts

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

Glossary: Adjectives in Informational Texts

Help your students' favorite characters come to life in new adventures as student writers draft new endings to their favorite stories.

Fan Fiction Finales

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

This lesson gives students practice identifying first person and third person narration in fiction and nonfiction texts. It could be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as a precursor to the lesson Fiction vs. Nonfiction.

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