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.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

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

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.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

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

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

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

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

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.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

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.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

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.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

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!