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

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.

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

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

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Put your students' reading skills to practice with this rock 'n' roll themed worksheet! Ask your students to read the story, then answer questions about the events in the story.

Put the sentences of the story in order from start to finish by numbering them. Read the story in the correct order when you're finished.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

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

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Invite kids to take their emoji skills to the next level by using them to describe books, events, and themselves!

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

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.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of the characters.

Enlist the famous Beatrix Potter in helping your child develop solid reading strategies.

How are Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolf different? Do they share any similarities? Challenge your young readers to hone their reading comprehension skills as they compare and contrast characters in a book or story with this Venn diagram works

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

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

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

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.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.