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Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

What's Behind the Door?

History buffs and fiction lovers alike will enjoy learning about legendary writer Mark Twain with this Wild West worksheet!

All About Mark Twain

Show kids how to sort fact from fiction with this worksheet.

The Sign Says: Fact or Opinion?

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Write an Ice Skating Story

Help your ELs use transition words as they make predictions and summarize a short fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Making Predictions and Summarizing

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

Give blossoming authors a chance to practice their creative writing skills with this realistic fiction writing prompt and standards-based rubric.

What’s Your Story? An Accidental Discovery

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Best Friends Forever Literary Response

Use this story map and your choice of short fiction passages to develop your students’ reading comprehension skills with this group reading lesson. 

Story Mapping Group Work

Ahoy there! Ready to sail with your students on a treasure map summary? What's that matey? Your students need practice with summaries? Then take a journey and summarize to find the hidden treasure.

Hidden Treasure: Summarizing Informational Text

Learners will create a decorative leaf project with their resolutions, then write a short paragraph summarizing how they hope to achieve them.

Fall Resolution Leaves

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to write effective nonfiction text summaries. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Create a Non-fiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Can you read 100 books in a day? Run a mile in 30 seconds? Kids can compare fact and fiction with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and others to learn about story structure, character analysis and hyperbole.

Tall Tales

Mix history and fiction and write your own story about what would happen if Captain Hook of "Peter Pan" and Captain Blackbeard met!

Pirate Story Starter

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Informational Texts

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

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Informational Indentations

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Audience Analysis

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Formative Assessment: Telling Summaries

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Writing in Response to Reading

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

Compare and Contrast: Working With Narrative Texts

Help your EL students find and record quotes as evidence in nonfiction texts with the help of introductory phrases and sentence frames. This can support the lesson Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts.

Quotes with Introductory Phrases

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

Persuasive Writing: Testing Your Reasons

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Writing About Reading Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

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

Making Connections Part 2: Literary Response

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts

Your students will be digging into nonfiction texts in search of the purpose and main idea of a passage.

Digging In with Research

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

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