Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

Deduce the definitions of tricky words in this engaging informational passage!

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

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.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

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

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.