Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Use this All About Misty Copeland Reader to help early readers learn about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theater.

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

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

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

A big focus in kindergarten is on reading comprehension skills. This open ended worksheet is a wonderful way for students to practice these skills as they map out a familiar story using their own words and images.

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Do you know the story of the Frog Prince? Help your little reader hone her basic reading comprehension skills with a fun storyboard exercise.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: The Purpose of Fiction Texts.

Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

This fun sequencing worksheet will help your child practice putting events in order, which will prepare her for reading comprehension.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Help your little bookworm get to know the layout of a table of contents! Learners deconstruct this sample table of contents by answering the questions.

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Read this classic children's poem, then draw a picture for it. Circle the rhyming words.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

Rhyming words are great for boosting phonics knowledge and teaching word families. This little make-it-yourself story book is packed with fun animal rhymes.

Fact: This resource will give your students practice sorting out facts and opinions in their reading. Students will use this graphic organizer to distinguish between facts and opinions they find in their text and explain their reasoning.

Kids will practice listening and speaking skills in this interactive vocabulary activity. Students will pair up and take turns responding to questions about difficult words they've encountered and what they learned by using context clues and a dictionary.

Encourage your child to read more by giving her a series of fun coloring pages that tell a story! She'll get to enjoy a Japanese folktale as she colors.