Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

Students will hone their reading comprehension skills while reading about the Loveland Frog.

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

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.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

Do you know how to haiku? This haiku worksheet gives your budding poet practice with counting syllables and noticing the role of rhythm in poetry.

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

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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!

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

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.