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 exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

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.

Help students analyze the words and form of a poem with this fun worksheet.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Read a classic fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", with your young reader.

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

Maintaining a reading log is a fun way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Students will keep track of their month-by-month reading stamina and practice their bar graphing with this reading log worksheet.

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

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

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Students hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this adapted excerpt from the first chapter of The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany.

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.

Draw a picture for each line of this nursery rhyme favorite!

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

This ocean-themed worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order in which the story goes.

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

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

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Not only does this mini story book boost reading and phonics skills, kids get to color it in and put it together themselves.