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Knowing how to read short O words like hot, pot, and top takes practice. This guided lesson can help kids master the short O sound. Kids will be taught to identify the short O within common sight words, which will boost reading fluency. Don't forget to check out the short O printables at the end of the lesson to continue the learning.

Short O 1

The short E sound, found in words such as leg, lemon and pen, is one of the most common vowel sounds in the English language, and one that first graders will often find in the texts they are learning to read. This lesson provides guided practice with the short E sound through targeted instruction and helpful examples. Check out our short E worksheets at the end of the lesson.

Short E 2

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Short and Sweet Summaries

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

Famous Short Stories: The Celebrated Jumping Frog

Vowels make more than one sound! Recognizing letters is a crucial skill for early readers. Recognizing the sounds they make is the next step. Help your child become a fluent reader and speaker with this short E lesson.

Short E 1

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Compare and Contrast: Short Stories

Print out this minibook and use your imagination to illustrate a short version of this fun fairy tale!

Jack and the Beanstalk: Short Version Minibook

This lesson will have your students learn to compare and contrast using both a classic fairy tale and a fractured versions of a fairy tale. 

Comparing and Contrasting Short Stories

By fourth grade, most students are familiar with story elements such as setting, characters, and plot. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the elements in two stories with similar themes.

Compare and Contrast Short Stories

This short story works on short sight words. Climb to the top of a tree and see what you can see with the help of you, her, and me.

The Tree Story

Help your student's reading comprehension with this short story and clarification questions.

The Sweet Soup

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop&rsquo;s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

The Crow and the Jug

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Making Inferences About Feelings

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Summary with Time Order Words

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

Reader’s Theater: The Snowman’s Day to Play

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Hot Cross Buns: Read to Remember

In this fascinating worksheet, children learn about the history of chocolate, from its ancient ceremonial use to the invention of the chocolate candy bar.

Chocolate: A Short and Sweet History

This one page printable features the Hanukkah story for kids in a very short version.

Story of Hanukkah for Children

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

The Selfish Giant

Your students will learn academic vocabulary and use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast two short stories. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as an introduction to the Comparing and Contrasting Short Stories lesson plan.

Learn to Compare and Contrast

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Simple Fiction Summary

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

Compare and Contrast: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

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

Birthday Party: Predictions

Practice reading fluency and nonfiction comprehension in this short story full of facts about giant pandas.

Giant Pandas Story

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

The Similarities in the Stories

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

The Cat That Walked by Himself

Filled with simple, short sentences and familiar vocabulary, this leveled book follows the life cycle of the butterfly.

Butterflies: Level AA

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Cause and Effect

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions

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