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A central component of reading comprehension is the ability to understand the main idea or theme of a text. In this series, your child will practice basic analysis of a short story or poem.

Story Sleuth: Reading Comprehension

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Paragraph Frame: Summer Vacation

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Priya and the Penny

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.

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Visualize the Scene

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

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Metaphors in Context

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Picture Book Pumpkin Creations

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

The Lion and the Mouse Fable

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

Reading Comprehension:  The Ice Cream Disaster

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Summary High Five

After reading the "My Vacation" series, use this worksheet to discover what you learned.

Practice Your Reading Comprehension

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

A Tale of Two Texts

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

What is Drama?

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Shifting Points of View

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

Develop Character and Setting

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Sentence Stems for Making Inferences

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

The Butterfly's Ball

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Author's Purpose: Sort It Out!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Reading Comprehension: The Serpent and the Eagle

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Determining a Character's Motivation

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Close Reading Annotations

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Cause & Effect Reading Comprehension: Home Sick

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Making Predictions and Summarizing: Tell Me What You Think

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