The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

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.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

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.

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

Color in this cool scene at the White House, and learn a few White House facts too!

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

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.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Building Fluency with Punctuation.

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

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.

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.

Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Creating Cause and Effect Skits

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

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!