What turned Louie's frown upside-down? This cute story starter gets your first grader writing a turtle tale.

This coloring page featuring Pippi Longstocking showcases this spirited character who keeps adults around her busy! Sound like any one you know?

Challenge your third grader to complete this perplexing maze modeled after the White House.

This story starter featuring an alien eating ice cream will have her begging to complete this exercise and then probably begging for an ice cream cone as well!

Draw a line between the rhyming words! This preschool worksheet will help your child see connections between words, their sounds, and their meanings.

Preschoolers get an introduction to reading comprehension with this simple worksheet about "Where Is Thumbkin."

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

Read some dark excerpts from the famous forefathers of horror writing and try your hand at it.

Read the work of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as the work of those who influenced him, and give his writing style a try of your own.

Assess kids' listening comprehension with this drawing worksheet.

With this prewriting organizer, students will brainstorm and visualize details of their fictional story.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

Soak up the summer sun as you complete this preschool and kindergarten reading challenge!

Kids share their favorite books and practice comprehension in this worksheet.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Use this template to assess your students' story retelling skills, including body language, transition words, and character and detail recollection.

Color-in this viking vessel and the vikings aboard.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Check if your students can use drawings to depict key moments in a story!

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

This scary Halloween coloring page features a hand emerging from a grave.

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

Assess your students’ proficiency in genre writing. Standards-based rubric included.

Use this resource to assess your students’ skills when it comes to responding to narrative prompts.

This fill-in-the-blank worksheet not only provides a fun way to tell a story, it also reviews parts of speech like nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

A Christmas-themed coloring sheet of reindeer in flight.