Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use this graphic organizer to analyze a common topic and theme between fiction texts.

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

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!

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Use this organizer to draw comparisons between problems and solutions in fiction texts.

Students make sense of literary elements like protagonists and challenges while drawing comparisons between fiction texts.

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Practice identifying advanced formatting features found in nonfiction, including titles, headings, and subheadings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Let your students choose a scientific concept that they want to base their story on and then, just for fun, ask them to write a few pages of a science fiction story.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Fiction.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Children are invited to come up with a new ending to a book they have read in this inventive fan fiction worksheet template.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

This sheet will review the ways that writers can play with different text and font features for a variety of effects.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

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

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.