Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Enjoy the story of "The Princess and the Pea" with your beginning reader. Use this story as a starter for literary activities.

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

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

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

As students become independent readers, they may have questions about what they read. Instead of taking the questions as they come up, encourage students to write them down using this handy worksheet.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

Do you know how to haiku? This haiku worksheet gives your budding poet practice with counting syllables and noticing the role of rhythm in poetry.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

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

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Venn diagrams aren't just a math tool; they make great charts for reading comprehension too!