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

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

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

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!

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

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

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Put your students' reading skills to practice with this rock 'n' roll themed worksheet! Ask your students to read the story, then answer questions about the events in the story.

Put the sentences of the story in order from start to finish by numbering them. Read the story in the correct order when you're finished.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works