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

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

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

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

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

This passage sheds light to the powerful women's workforce in World War 2. After reading the passage, students will use their critical thinking stills to answer comprehension questions.

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

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues 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.

The Underground Railroad aided thousands of enslaved Americans on the road to freedom. Students will learn about the leaders of this movement.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

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!

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Will Jelly ever fly again? Find out by putting the sentences in sequential order from beginning to end.

Help your students to process and retain the information they learn from watching videos with this handy worksheet. Students will consider their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know.

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

Your young readers are sure to enjoy this story about Ralph and the discovery he makes on his walk. This worksheet will help strengthen your students' comprehension skills as they answer questions about the text.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.