Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Put the events of the story in sequential order from what happened first to what happened last. Then read the story to learn more about Rocky!

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

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

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

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

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