Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing. Your little historian can learn about Florence's life in this biography worksheet.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Learn to identify first, second, and third person perspective in writing!

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Use this play planner to give your students a head start on writing their own play!

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.