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

Simple Fiction Summary

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!

Analyzing Elements of Fiction: Visuals

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

Topic & Theme Between Fiction Texts

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

Common Themes Between Fiction Texts

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

Common Topics Between Fiction Texts

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

Writing a Fiction Summary: The Wind in the Willows

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

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

Head to Head Fiction: Problems and Solutions

Kids compare points of view between firsthand account stories of seriously mysterious sightings. Fiction, non-fiction, and real-world skills collide in this workbook!

Famous Ghost Stories

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

Head to Head Fiction: Protagonists and Challenges

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?

Got facts? Got opinions? Use this lesson plan to teach your students to evaluate texts for facts and opinions. Students will use a non-fiction text selection to collect quotes as proof. 

Find ‘Em and Quote ‘Em! Facts and Opinions

Use this lesson to help your ELs evaluate the purpose of text features and justify their answers. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing Nonfiction Text Features.

Text Features Evaluation

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

Glossary: Main Idea and Details 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

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

Fiction Summaries:  Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

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

Nonfiction Text Features Checklist

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

Basketball: Nonfiction Text

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

Tennis: Nonfiction Text

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

Text Dependent Questions for Independent Reading

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

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea and Details in Fiction

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

Glossary: Text Features Evaluation

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author&#39;s point.

Soccer: Nonfiction Text

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Side-By-Side Nonfiction Text Features 

Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather!  Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions.  This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.

Informational Text: Close Reading

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

Fan Fiction Finales: Alternate Story Endings

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Vocabulary Cards: Text Features Evaluation

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