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EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Kids practice using the prefixes dis-, un-, and non- in this worksheet.

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

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

What are the two main parts of a sentence? This worksheet focuses on the strategy of identifying complete sentences.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Challenge students to come up with arguments and counter-arguments for a controversial topic, whether they agree or not.

Sometimes the main idea of a piece of writing leads to the perfect title!

One of the most popular genres is fiction. Learn what this genre is, who some of its most famous authors are, and try to write some yourself!

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

This assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the realistic fiction writing genre.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

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 these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Students can use this template to generate a topic for a literary argument essay by considering a story they have read.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.