You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

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

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Build third and fourth graders’ reading fluency with this short story!

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

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

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

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

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

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.