You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Would you rather travel through time or travel through space? Explore limitless frontiers while writing science fiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use this resource to review important vocabulary terms in the genre of fiction.

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

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

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Build third and fourth graders’ reading fluency with this short story!

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

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

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

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.