Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

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.

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

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.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Help students to retell information they’ve read in informational books with this helpful worksheet. Students will choose four pages from their nonfiction book to summarize, writing their sentences in the pages of the fun book graphic.

This activity adds a discussion element to nonfiction reading. Use this worksheet to get your students thinking about facts in the books they read.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: A Simple Summary.

Students can use this organizer to jot down the new words they encounter and also note what they think they mean.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Draw Beginning, Middle, and End.

As students retell stories, have them use symbols to highlight certain parts in their book, such as question marks to note questions and hearts to indicate their favorite parts.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters