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Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

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

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

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

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

Would you rather travel through time or travel through space? Explore limitless frontiers while writing science fiction.

Use this resource to review important vocabulary terms in the genre of fiction.

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Get into a mad scientist state of mind with this fun science fiction writing prompt! Your child will imagine and describe a magical potion.

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

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

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

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet! 

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

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.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

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

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.