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

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.

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

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.

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

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

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.