Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

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

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.

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

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.

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

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

A big focus in kindergarten is on reading comprehension skills. This open ended worksheet is a wonderful way for students to practice these skills as they map out a familiar story using their own words and images.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

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

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine narratives with characters from their favorite stories.

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.

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

Kids research the constitutional amendments that were added after the Bill of Rights with this cool worksheet.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

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

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Early readers practice using context clues to order a simple story in this appealing worksheet.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

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