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This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Make a Summary: Butterflies

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

The Lion and the Mouse Fable

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

What happens when a pompous rocket starts to cry? Develop your child's reading skills with this classic children's story by legendary writer Oscar Wilde.

The Remarkable Rocket

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

Reading Comprehension:  The Ice Cream Disaster

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

Summary High Five

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks

Punctuation Pig offers a lesson on using quotation marks in titles in this playful follow-up&nbsp;to&nbsp;Quotation Marks #1&nbsp;with Punctuation Pig.

Quotation Marks #2 with Punctuation Pig

Use this exercise with your students to practice identifying adjectives that describe a character. They will then organize them on a graphic organizer.

Adjectives in Context

After reading the "My Vacation" series, use this worksheet to discover what you learned.

Practice Your Reading Comprehension

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

A Tale of Two Texts

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

What is Drama?

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

Shifting Points of View

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Develop Character and Setting

Help your EL students identify coordinating conjunctions in compound sentences.

Compound Sentences in Nonfiction

Use this resource with your students to explore some of the different roles of a final /e/.

Final /e/: Word Sort

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Use this creative writing worksheet to help students practice using prepositional phrases to vary up their sentences.

Powerful Prepositions

Give your students the opportunity to turn boring titles into interesting titles!

Turning Titles Around

Develop your students' writing skills with this character and setting worksheet!

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Searching for Context Clues & Key Details

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Reading Comprehension: The Serpent and the Eagle

Students will practice reading and writing words with silent letters in a fun and engaging way!

Silent Letter Search

This worksheet will expose your learners to important poets in the African American community.

Who Am I? African American Poets

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Colonial America: Jamestown

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

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

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