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4th - 8th Grade Fiction Passages Resources : Page 5

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.

Characters and Settings in Noun Phrases

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Top Hat Graphic Organizer

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

Develop Character and Setting

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

How the Camel Got His Hump

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Main Idea: At the Movies

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

Making Inferences About Feelings

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Sentence Stems for Making Inferences

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentences.

Fact or Opinion Sentences

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.

Find the Main Idea: Peter Rabbit

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Reading Response Log

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

Reading Fiction: Main Idea and Details

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.

“I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song

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

A Tale of Two Texts

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Book or Character Mind Map

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

The Crane Wife

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

Compare & Contrast Themes

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from <em>The Secret Garden</em>.

The Secret Garden Setting

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

Shifting Points of View

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

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Storyboard Summary

Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.

Reading: The Wind in the Willows

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

What is Biography?

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

What is Science Fiction?

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Compare Story Elements

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

Using Noun Phrases for Character & Setting

Ask students questions about  "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

Narrative Poem: Casey at the Bat

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

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

Find the Noun Phrases: Character & Setting

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Part 1: Using Visual Clues to Make Inferences

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Compare Similar Stories

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