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Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Short and Sweet Summaries

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Famous Short Stories: The Celebrated Jumping Frog

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Compare and Contrast: Short Stories

By fourth grade, most students are familiar with story elements such as setting, characters, and plot. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the elements in two stories with similar themes.

Compare and Contrast Short Stories

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Making Inferences About Feelings

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

Summary with Time Order Words

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

Reader’s Theater: The Snowman’s Day to Play

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

Hot Cross Buns: Read to Remember

In this fascinating worksheet, children learn about the history of chocolate, from its ancient ceremonial use to the invention of the chocolate candy bar.

Chocolate: A Short and Sweet History

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

The Selfish Giant

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

Simple Fiction Summary

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Compare and Contrast: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

The Similarities in the Stories

Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

The Cat That Walked by Himself

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Cause and Effect

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Finding the Theme

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Nonfiction Text Features: Winter Olympics

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Find the Main Idea: Shark

Use this short story with comprehension questions to help your students practice identifying cause and effect relationships in a fictional text.

The Pop Quiz Blues Story

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Big Idea Summary

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Inference Task Cards

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Day of the Dead

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

The Butterfly That Stamped

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

Practice with Problem & Solution

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Finding the Problem and the Solution with Question Words

Students will read a short biography of Keller, then answer a thoughtful prompt designed to help them reflect on what they have read.

Helen Keller Biography

Mary Lou Retton tumbled into America's heart in the 1988 Olympics. Read about her Olympic victories in this worksheet, then complete a short reading exercise.

Famous Olympic Athletes: Mary Lou Retton

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