Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

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

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

If you're looking for an exciting genre, then mystery might just be the one for you!

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

First graders will gain exposure to the classic text by Charles Perrault, "The Sleeping Beauty", with this worksheet. After reading the story, kids are tasked with reading comprehension questions about what they read.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Packed with reading practice and big on cute, this mini book is sure to get your kindergartener in the reading mood.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

This story teaches students a moral and helps strengthen their sentence building skills.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

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

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.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

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.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.