This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Kids rate stories and share favorite texts in this worksheet.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Retelling a Fiction Story.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

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.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

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.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Who doesn't love sharing about a good book? Your students will love writing and drawing about their books in this reading comprehension activity. After students read independently, have them share about what they read using this fun worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: All About Sequencing.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Use this worksheet as a way for students to practice retelling a familiar story using their own words and images.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Learn Story Elements.

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

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!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Map a Story.