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2nd - 4th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Resources : Page 5

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Character Reactions

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

Matching Predictions

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

The Tortoise and the Hare Fable

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

Have Fun Reading: Choice Board

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Make Your Own Inferences 2

The Secret Garden's setting tells you a lot about characters, plot, and conflict. Explore the role of setting in literature in this worksheet.

The Secret Garden Setting

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Chapter Summaries

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

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

Tracking Character Traits

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Point of View Pronouns

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Story Comprehension: What Happens Next?

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Identifying Characters and their Dialogue

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Book or Character Mind Map

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

Develop Character and Setting

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Character Traits: Making Inferences

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what&#39;s going on in this short story and why.

Sugar and Spice

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Superhero Research Project

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Compare and Contrast Fictional Stories: First Day at the New School

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Schema, Evidence, and Inference

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

Describe a Character

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”

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

Comparing Settings from Two Fiction Texts

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.

Close Reading in Fiction

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Compare and Contrast: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

The Shiniest Apple: Cause & Effect

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Reading Strategies: Making Connections

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

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