Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

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 can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Fantastic Fiction: Retelling Stories.

This engaging activity helps students practice retelling stories by recounting the details of a favorite story, movie, or TV show. Students are asked to write a paragraph about the beginning, middle, and end of the story, as well as illustrate one of the

These worksheets are all about the 180-degree rule, an important film technique. If your kid loves movies, then she'll love this chance to go behind the scenes.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Connections in a Fiction Text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Use this glossary with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Bunny?

Nonfiction books are jam-packed with information, which is why it’s important to read them more than once! This worksheet encourages students to reread nonfiction, summarizing what they learned with pictures and words.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: H Is for Humpty.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What Happened to the Itsy Bitsy Spider?

This worksheet helps guide kids along as they read their chosen book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: What's the Sequence?