Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Get ready for the back to school season with a printable to-do list full of fall colors, a great start to an organized school year!

Introduce students to nonfiction genres in their school or local library!

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

Go on a reading adventure with Sinbad the Sailor, a hero of Middle Eastern myth and a great excuse to practice reading comprehension.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Celebrate a fresh school year and crisp autumn days as kindergarten through second-grade students build strong literacy habits!

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!

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Don't forget to pack a to-do list in your back to school binder! This helpful checklist will inspire excellent organizational skills in your child.

Savor the final weeks of summer and gear up for a fantastic school year as kindergarten through second-grade students track their reading milestones!

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

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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.

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.