Students imagine a hypothetical interview with Malala Yousafzai, using their research skills to form and answer thoughtful interview questions.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

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

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading with Symbols.

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Kids recall important details from a story in this listening comprehension worksheet.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Read a chapter and write a summary! Help your second graders practice their reading fluency while also improving their summarizing skills.

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling with Paragraph Frames.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

This decodable worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order of the story.

Flip through a story flipbook with your child, a great way to teach about beginning, middle and end.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Engage reluctant readers with this fun video game-themed worksheet! Students will share what happened at each point in the book as they advance through each level of the retell game.

Engage students in reading by having them share about the nonfiction books they read. This activity will get students talking, listening, and writing! They'll take turns sharing about the book they've read before writing a summary of their partner's book.

Have students record new words in this organizer and jot down what they think they mean.

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.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

Students learn to retell familiar stories by sharing about one of their favorite books. Students will share important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

This worksheet is a great way to record students’ thinking as they recall and retell a story.