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Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Compare and Contrast: Short Stories

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Short and Sweet Summaries

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

Author Inferences and Quotes as Proof

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Famous Short Stories: The Celebrated Jumping Frog

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Emily's Turtle

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech&rsquo;s <em>Walk Two Moons</em> with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Cause and Effect in Walk Two Moons

Print out this minibook and use your imagination to illustrate a short version of this fun fairy tale!

Jack and the Beanstalk: Short Version Minibook

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

The Author’s Viewpoint vs. My Viewpoint

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Detecting the Author's Purpose

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Compare and Contrast: Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Glossary: Two Perspectives

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Two Fiction Texts

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

The Similarities in the Stories

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

A Tale of Two Texts

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Comparing Two Stories

Students will use sentence frames to cite quotes from nonfiction texts.

Cite an Author with Introductory Phrases

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

The Butterfly That Stamped

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing Settings from Two Fiction Texts

Find out what happens to the Velveteen Rabbit in part two of this beautiful storybook coloring series.

The Velveteen Rabbit: Part 2

Learn about Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author.

Carl Sagan Biography

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

Identify the Author's Purpose

Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

Historical Heroes: Maya Angelou

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

Read part two of this classic tale by the Brothers Grimm! Enjoy a fun fairy tale series where your child can color in the illustrations herself.

Briar Rose: Part 2

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s <em>Wonder</em>.

Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #2

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Author's Purpose

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