Use this graphic organizer with your students to reflect and re-imagine story endings with characters from their favorite tales.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Real or Not?

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Picture Walks to Examine the Author's Purpose.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

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.

In part two of "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader finds the shoemaker surprised to see fancy and freshly-made shoes in his workshop.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sharing Opinions About Stories.

Share some special storytelling time during the holidays. Cozy up with your little reader to enjoy "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

Oh no! The Princess and the Pea story has gotten all mixed up. Can you put the story in the right order?

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use these vocabulary cards with the lesson plan EL Support Lesson: Wild and Windy Weather.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.

Use this Venn diagram to help kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting events in a story.

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

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

Enjoy part two of this classic Christmas tale. Your little dancer can experience the magic of the Nutcracker with this storybook she can color herself!

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

Enjoy the end of this 2-part storybook coloring series featuring The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen.

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

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

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Meet the mythical Captain Stormalong, a sturdy sailor who's said to have conquered the high seas.