Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Mix history and fiction and write your own story about what would happen if Captain Hook of "Peter Pan" and Captain Blackbeard met!

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

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.

Learn about famous nonfiction writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Jack London in this fun worksheet, then try writing some nonfiction yourself.

Add some color and fun to your classroom library bins with the help of these Brainzy-themed book bin labels!

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

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 resource offers readers 10 different discussion focuses for critical reflection towards thesis writing development.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Follow Hank’s sunny adventure with this first and second grade story-retelling worksheet!

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