"The Scarlet Flower" shares many similarities with a famous Western fairytale. Can you guess which one?

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

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.

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.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Get in tune with nature, and read a bit about an endangered species of animal, the Black-footed Ferret. Your child can color an illustration as he reads.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

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

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

With this exercise, students will think deeply about their reading by describing important events, asking questions, and making comparisons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Words That Show Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Poetic Personification.