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

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

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

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

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

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.

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

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

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

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

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.