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

Language is fascinating and confusing! Learn some words in other languages that don't translate to English with this great linguistics worksheet.

Familiarize your students with clue words that help indicate cause and effect relationships.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

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.

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

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

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

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

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

This worksheet is a quick-reference tool of space vocabulary for kids, with an exercise to use the words properly in provided sentences.

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

Invite students to reflect on a book character’s words in this writing response worksheet featuring a quote by Ivan from The One and Only Ivan.

This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.

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.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Read this passage about a rainy spring break to boost your character analysis skills!

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

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

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this upper elementary reading comprehension worksheet!