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.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Have your young reader describe and compare three of their favorite book characters in this triple-sided Venn diagram.

This reading response worksheet gives the "evil" stepsisters a chance to defend themselves.

"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?

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

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

How well do you know the Rumpelstiltskin story? Hone comprehension skills with this fun fairy tale mix up.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.