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Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Glossary: The Purpose of Fiction Texts

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: The Purpose of Fiction Texts

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.

Sundae Summarizing

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Glossary: Making Predictions and Summarizing

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Predictions and Summarizing

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

Timeline Organizer

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Organize Your Questions

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Note-Taking from a Text

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

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

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

Give your child the tools to decide the difference between fact and opinion with this fun and simple exercise. In this worksheet, children will identify which statements can be proven to be true and which are based on a personal view.

Fact or Fiction Bubble Pop

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Summarize It

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Character Comparison Graphic Organizer

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

Author’s Purpose: The Ant and the Grasshopper

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

Who, What, Where 

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

Paul Bunyan

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

Post Your Questions

Meet the legendary John Henry, a famous character from a classic tall tale! Learn the difference between fact and fiction with this fun reading sheet.

John Henry Tall Tale

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

Johnny Appleseed Story

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Best Friends Forever Literary Response

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

This Happened and Then

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

Pecos Bill!

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Story Order: Case 2

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 a Mental Picture

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Chameleon Table of Contents

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Making Predictions and Summarizing: Tell Me What You Think

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Sum it Up: Grandpa's Boat

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

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