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Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Short and Sweet Summaries

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Hot Cross Buns: Read to Remember

In this fascinating worksheet, children learn about the history of chocolate, from its ancient ceremonial use to the invention of the chocolate candy bar.

Chocolate: A Short and Sweet History

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

Simple Fiction Summary

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

The Similarities in the Stories

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

Making Connections Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Reading for Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Finding the Theme

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Find the Main Idea: Shark

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Day of the Dead

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what&#39;s going on in this short story and why.

Sugar and Spice

Teach your child history, science and reading all at once with this short biography of Marie Curie, a scientist and the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize.

Marie Curie Biography

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

Explore nonfiction with this set of short and sweet facts on notable people, places and events in history. Young readers can practice taking notes, answering questions and analyzing primary sources.

Reading Nonfiction

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.

Summarizing with Sequence Words

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Making Comparisons with a Venn Diagram: Bessie Coleman and Mae Jemison

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

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Barack Obama Crossword and Trivia

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Making Inferences in a Fictional Text

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks

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

A Tale of Two Texts

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

Shifting Points of View

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Develop Character and Setting

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

Part 2: Using Your Text Connections in a Thinking Paragraph

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

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

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Searching for Context Clues & Key Details

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Reading Comprehension: The Serpent and the Eagle

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

Colonial America: Jamestown

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

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

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