Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Take a trip back in time to visit the temple of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis!

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Have your little monkey learn this nursery rhyme through repetition!

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Use this well-loved nursery rhyme to help your kindergarten students identify the letter A.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

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!

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

As students read independently, they’ll run into words they have trouble decoding. Have your kids cut out these fun “tricky word” bookmarks to help them to recognize and record these words so that they can practice decoding them!

Help students prepare for reader’s workshop by picking books to read independently. Students will choose three books that look appealing and read one page. If there are five or less words that are tricky to read, they've found a book that is just right!

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 this simple and effective graphic organizer to have students predict or describe events from their own lives or from stories.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Buzzing Sensory Poems.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Draw a picture of the beginning, middle, and end of this well-loved poem.