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.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

Encourage thoughtful media consumption with this set of television show comprehension questions.

Use this handy fluency checklist to help your students track their accuracy, expression, and pacing when reading to support comprehension!

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Test comprehension with this fairy tale jumble! Put "The Ugly Duckling" story scenes back in order.

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

Maintaining a reading log is a fun way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Students will keep track of their month-by-month reading stamina and practice their bar graphing with this reading log worksheet.

Test your child's reading comprehension with the story of "The Frog Prince"!

Explore story sense with your young reader. First, read the astronaut's story. Then, let your imagination tell what will happen next!

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

How well do you know your fables? Mix up storytelling time by putting The Boy Who Cried Wolf story back in order!

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

This rubric can be used with any lesson where students are learning or practicing fluency.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

This worksheet can help students determine fiction and nonfiction writing styles, an essential part of the first grade language arts curriculum.

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

Help students analyze the words and form of a poem with this fun worksheet.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.