Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

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!

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Use this resource to help your students create questions about their fiction text.

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.

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

As students begin to read independently, they may have questions about what they read. These questions should be encouraged! Have students record their questions about their reading or any unknown words on this graphic organizer.

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

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

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

This rubric can be used with any lesson where students are learning or practicing fluency.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

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

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Help your students to process and retain the information they learn from watching videos with this handy worksheet. Students will consider their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know.

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.