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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

This lesson gives students practice identifying first person and third person narration in fiction and nonfiction texts. It could be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as a precursor to the lesson Fiction vs. Nonfiction.

Shifting Points of View

Give your students practice with inferences using short fictional texts before asking them to apply the skill to a longer text of their choice.

Inferences in Fictional Texts

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: Adjectives in Informational Texts

When students read nonfiction texts, they will need to make inferences using text features and quotes as evidence. Support your students using short texts as practice before diving into more complex materials like textbooks.

Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Glossary: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts

How familiar are your fourth graders with the fictional genres available in their class or school libraries? This lesson introduces them to many genres of fictional books so they can get off to a terrific start of fourth grade reading. 

Fiction Genres Library Exploration

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Texts: The Underground Railroad

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Vocabulary Cards: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts

Are you a page turner or a mouse clicker? In this lesson, students compare and contrast text features in two types of nonfictions texts: print and electronic. 

Battle of the Texts: Print vs. Electronics

Graphic novels, animated stories, and storytelling videos pop with enhanced  meaning, tone and beauty. Use this lesson plan with a mentor text to teach your students to note how such features contribute to the reader’s experience. 

Multimedia Elements of Fiction: Beginning to End

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements.  Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Poetry

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

Transition Words in Fiction

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

Graphic Organizer: Problem & Solution

Did you know that comparative tasks improve comprehension and help students develop higher order thinking skills? In this lesson, students will compare nonfiction texts on the same topic using Venn diagrams and performance!

Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: What to Do with Waste

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

Reading Fiction: Main Idea and Details

Understanding the difference between fact and opinion is a critical skill. Your students will practice differentiating between facts and opinions in nonfiction texts and will apply the skills they learn to write their own statements.

Fact vs. Opinion in Texts

Use this lesson to help your ELs summarize information from a text and use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. This lesson can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the Day 4 section of the Star Unit lesson.

Summarizing Nonfiction

Got facts? Got opinions? Use this lesson plan to teach your students to evaluate texts for facts and opinions. Students will use a non-fiction text selection to collect quotes as proof. 

Find ‘Em and Quote ‘Em! Facts and Opinions

This lesson helps students summarize fictional stories using sequence words. Students will have a chance to practice distinguishing the different parts of a story in this lesson, which can be taught as a precursor to Storyboard Superstars. 

Summarizing with Sequence Words

In this EL support lesson, your students will use introductory phrases to write about the main idea and details in a fictional story.

Main Idea and Details in Fiction

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

Compare and Contrast Elements of a Story

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Three Sentence Summary

In this support lesson, your ELs will use key vocabulary and sentence structures to summarize a story. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing and Contrasting Book Series.

Sentence Structures for Summarizing

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.

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

Protagonists and Supporting Characters

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

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