In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

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

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

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

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.