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

Simple Fiction Summary

This lesson gives students a structure to help them summarize fiction texts. When they are skilled at summarizing, they will be more capable of exploring various fiction genres. Use it as a precursor to Fiction Genres Library Exploration. 

Basic Fiction Summaries

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

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

Improve your students' comprehension of non-fictional reading through this lesson that teaches them about text features. Students will find their own text features and explain why they aid in the reading process.

Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense

Kids practice using the prefixes dis-, un-, and non- in this worksheet.

Prefix Practice: Dis- Non- Un- 

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.

What is Historical Fiction?

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

Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction

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

Head to Head Fiction: Themes

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

Glossary: Basic Fiction Summaries

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

What is Fiction?

Kids will love learning some fun facts about elephants while developing their reading comprehension skills. Using T-charts and Venn diagrams, they'll analyze stories and explore different characteristics of fiction and nonfiction.

Fiction vs. Nonfiction

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

Realistic Fiction Writing Assessment

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

Fiction Travel Brochure

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

Vocabulary Cards: Basic Fiction Summaries

Reading reflection topics like theme, problems, and solutions can be challenging concepts for young readers. Help your students make sense of these literary elements using dynamic organizers that draw comparisons between fiction texts.


Head to Head Fiction Reflections

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

Glossary: Problems and Solutions in Fiction

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.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

This lesson helps your ELs identify nonfiction text features and explain how they enhance comprehension of the text. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson for the Searching for Text Features lesson plan.

Text Features and Their Purposes

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?

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Text Features of Nonfiction Printed Text and Nonfiction Electronic Text

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

Formatting Nonfiction Text

Let's practice reading nonfiction texts! In this lesson, teach your ELs about identifying and describing text features. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Formatting Text Features.

Understand Text Features

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

Every story has a problem and every problem has a solution! Use this lesson to help students identify the problem and solution in fiction texts. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Compare and Contrast Short Stories.

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.

Paragraph Frame for Summarizing Fiction

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

Vocabulary Cards: Problems and Solutions in Fiction

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Earthquakes: Text Features

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

Text Features Sort

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

Story Mountain: Realistic Fiction Graphic Organizer

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

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