Search Printable Language Analyzing Story Structure Worksheets

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Students will read an excerpt from the classic adventure story White Fang by Jack London before answering comprehension questions about the text.

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

Meet the curious mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi in this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet adapted from the classic Rudyard Kipling tale.

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Unravel a classic story from Greek mythology with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet for seventh and eighth-grade learners!

Students practice essential reading comprehension skills in this worksheet that features a passage about a boy who takes hang gliding lessons and becomes airborne for the first time.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

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.

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

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 use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

In this first-person narrative, a child looks forward to a first camping trip.

In the second part of this story, a child observes the lead-up to a camping trip.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Use this discussion guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about chapters 1–4 of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. 

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.