Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Use this worksheet to record how a character is feeling at the beginning, middle, and end of a story.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Help your students think critically about the characters and central message as they read using this interactive reading organizer.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

This worksheet will have students learning about the sequencing of fiction texts.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Fiction or nonfiction? Children are introduced to the concept of genre in this early literacy worksheet.

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Build third and fourth graders’ reading fluency with this short story!