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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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing Nonfiction.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sentence Structures for Summarizing.

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.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Deepen your students’ literary comprehension by comparing texts within a genre.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect in Nonfiction Texts.