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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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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 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: Problems and Solutions in Fiction.

Young writers set off on the right foot with this realistic fiction graphic organizer.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

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

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.