Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

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

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

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

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

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.

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

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

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

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

Build third and fourth graders’ reading fluency with this short story!

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

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

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Children will use their creative writing skills to continue the story in this fiction writing exercise.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.