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Are your students hooking their readers? Use this creative and imaginative writing exercise that will bring student beginnings to life.

Let's Hook 'Em!

In this lesson, students will use conjunctions to compare and contrast scary stories. It can be taught independently or used as a pre-lesson to Using Story Elements to Compare and Contrast Fiction Texts. 

Scary Story Elements

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Spark a Story

Reading can be a rollercoaster with its ups and downs! Use this lesson that features a rollercoaster-themed story map to teach your students about story structure and how to use a graphic organizer to visualize it.

Story Structure Rollercoaster

Teach your class about the genre of traditional literature, made up of stories from around the world that have been told for generations. In this lesson, students will read fairy tales and compare story elements in each piece of literature.

Elements of Traditional Literature

Getting hooked on a series or type of character creates reader engagement! Use this lesson to challenge your students to compare and contrast fictional texts as they find the joy in reading books by the same author.

Comparing Texts by the Same Author

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

Book Casting Call

In this lesson, your students will learn all about the perfect recipe for a story! Your students will practice their knowledge by rolling a story element die and sharing with the class.

The Recipe for a Perfect Story

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Write Your Own Tall Tale

Use this lesson to help students identify the elements of a fictional text while gaining more knowledge about parts of speech. Use as a stand alone activity or a support lesson for Fairy Tales: Identifying Story Elements.

Elements of Fairy Tales

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Tracking Character Traits

All fictional stories have story elements but they sure can differ between stories. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the story elements of two fictional stories and document their findings in a graphic organizer.   

Using Story Elements to Compare and Contrast Fiction Texts

Kids strengthen their pre-writing skills and learn about character development with this planning worksheet.

Write Your Supporting Character

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Heroes and Villains

Here's a fun way to get your first grader writing stories; this one's about a mouse, cat, and cheese!

Picture Story Starter

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Comprehension Cards

In this leveled book, kids read about going down the slide, flying on the swings, and other fun outdoor activities at the park.

Let's Go To The Park!: Level H

Use this lesson with your students to teach them to describe the differences between stories with contrasting conjunctions. This lesson can stand-alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Finding Similarities and Differences* lesson.

Focus on the Differences

In this leveled book, a girl and her dad head to the grocery store to pick up ingredients for a spaghetti dinner.

Grocery Shopping: Level E

Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

Character Detectives

Test your child's reading comprehension with the story of "The Frog Prince"!

Story of the Frog Prince

The Analyzing a Poem graphic organizer supports students with specific questions to help them understand a poem.

Analyzing a Poem

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Become a Character Detective

On a dark and story night... Spookify your storytelling time with some scary story cards!

Scary Story Cards

This selection of questions helps reinforce reading comprehension and highlights various elements of the story.

Practice Understanding What You Read

Get your third grader familiar with basic poetry vocabulary in this diagram worksheet

Poetry Vocabulary

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Social Media Book Review

This lesson plan integrates art and reading to create a character by personifying a pumpkin. Your students will enjoy writing a story about a character that they have created!

Pumpkin Creatures

Get the best of the season, and write your own winter bucket list! This is a great exercise for helping kids set and keep goals.

My Winter Goals

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