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 these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

In this worksheet, kids will learn about the author's perspective, an essential component of nonfiction comprehension.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Complete the story by writing the main events.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

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

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

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.

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Use this graphic organizer with your students to re-imagine story dialogue with characters from another story.

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

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

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

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