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2nd - 7th Grade Common Core Fiction Passages Resources : Page 4

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.

Diagramming the Plot of a Story

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Evaluating Character Traits: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Think About Theme: The Golden Nugget

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author&#39;s message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Make Your Own Inferences

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

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

Summary High Five

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Reading Comprehension: The Soccer Sprain

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Book Characters

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

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

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

Inferences & Evidence

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Making Inferences with Pictures

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Chapter Summary

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Folktales: The Princess Mouse

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.

Author's Purpose

Keeping a reading log is a great way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Your students will build reading fluency and stamina by logging and graphing their reading time.

Reading Log and Graph

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

Story of the Three Little Pigs

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Story Rollercoaster

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

Find the Theme Flowchart

Improve your child&#39;s reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children&#39;s story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Reading Comprehension: Stuffed Elephant

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Poetry Guide

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Simple Summary Reading Log

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

The Secret Garden: Reading Comprehension

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Practice Making Inferences

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence in their answers.

Introductory Phrases: Cite the Evidence

Expand your reader&rsquo;s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Extended Reading Comprehension: The Boatbuilders of Fiji

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Common Question Words

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.

Five Finger Story Sequencing

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Winchester Mystery House

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