Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

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

Enjoy The Raven by Edgar Allan poe in a whole new way with this printable mini-book version

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

After reading nonfiction books, encourage students to share what they’ve learned by writing letters to a family member. Students will use this letter template to share the name of the book and a detailed summary of what they learned.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. In this activity, students write a summary—in speech form!—of a book that they read. For added fun, have them give their speeches to a partner—or even the whole class!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elements of Fairy Tales.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Explore all the action packed into "To Build a Fire" by building mini version of it!

Practice reading comprehension with "A Mad Tea Party," an exciting chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then make it into a mini-book.

This printable worksheet offers a space for students to record facts they have learned from a book. Recalling facts helps develop their ability to summarize reading.

Here's a Hans Christian Andersen tale you might not know: The Tinder Box, where a soldier goes on a magical adventure.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Summarize a Nonfiction Text.

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

These worksheets are all about the 180-degree rule, an important film technique. If your kid loves movies, then she'll love this chance to go behind the scenes.

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

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