Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

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

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

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Character Traits.

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

These worksheets, which cover social studies, reading comprehension and writing, teach kids all about the Great Race of Mercy.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

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

Is your child having trouble with reading comprehension? The wizard can help!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Comparisons.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

If you're studying The Wizard of Oz, take a break with this fun quiz on quotes from different characters in the book.

This worksheet features writing prompts to help your kid think analytically about the story of Bridge to Terabithia and get the most out of the book and movie.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.