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Free download Teach reading comprehension (identifying the main idea and supporting details) using a short English narrative about a snail named Sammy who climbs a sunflower despite others doubting him and learns that patience and determination achieve dreams.
Free download Teach reading comprehension (identifying the main idea and supporting details) using a short English narrative about a turtle named Toby who overcomes his fear of deep water to swim across a lake and learns that being brave means trying anyway.
Free download Teach reading comprehension (identifying the main idea and supporting details) using a short English narrative about a turtle named Toby who slowly climbs a hill despite others' doubts and learns that patience and determination achieve goals.
Free download Teach reading comprehension (identifying the main idea and supporting details) using a short English narrative about a squirrel named Lily who overcomes her fear of climbing tall trees to help a friend and learns that facing fears builds courage.
Free download Teach reading comprehension (identifying the main idea and supporting details) using a short English narrative about a kind elephant named Ella who helps other animals and learns that helping others makes the world better.
Free download Teach reading comprehension (identifying the main idea and supporting details) using a short English narrative about a cloud named Coco who learns that trying again, with a little help, makes a difference.
Free download Teach reading comprehension (identifying the main idea and supporting details) using a short English narrative about a small star named Lia who guides a lost traveler home and learns that even a small light can make a big difference.
Free download Teach reading comprehension (identifying the main idea and supporting details) using a short English narrative about a bear named Benji who helps a cold bird build a nest and learns that small acts of kindness make a big difference.
Teaching Plot Anchor Chart Chart out new territories of learning with this unique set of teaching tools designed to simplify the process of understanding plot structures.
This worksheet can help your students compare two stories with similar plots or characters. It can be a useful tool to help them understand the elements from the two stories.
This resource is a pumpkin sequencing activity . Students will be able to view these charts on display and watch as the pumpkin develops step by step. At the end, they will work with sequencing vocabulary.
Free download A short ESL/early-reader comprehension pack using a simple fiction passage about a family visit to the zoo, paired with four reading-strategy anchor-chart activities (predict, visualize, question, summarize) and a vocabulary box.
A five-step Somebody/Wanted/But/So/Then framework walks students through identifying a story's main character, goal, problem, attempted solution, and ending, and it appears twice — once fully worded as a teacher or display copy, and once with key words blanked out for students to fill in themselves. A second, matching chart titled ‘Summarizing’ explains that a summary retells a story's main events and lists the five elements to include (characters, setting, problem, events, solution) using the same SWBST acronym, again in both a complete and a fill-in-the-blank version. Together the four pages form a two-part anchor chart set meant to be posted for reference and then reinforced through an interactive-notebook-style blank version students complete in their own notes. The charts can support story retelling alongside a teacher-selected text.
Free download A bundle of short original English stories/fables (including at least one classic fable, 'The Lion and the Mouse') each paired with a main-idea-and-details reading-comprehension anchor chart, provided in both a completed worked example and a blank student-practice template.
Free download Reading comprehension anchor chart set built around an original short story, teaching main idea, details, and comprehension strategies.
Use the charts to introduce a basic comparison between first- and third-person narration, then have students apply the sentence frame to a text you supply. Completed and partially blank versions offer different amounts of support. Ask students to examine the narrator’s words rather than dialogue alone, and explain that first-person narration can be fictional as well as a personal narrative.
A reading comprehension activity packet designed as a companion to the picture book 'Wild Christmas Reindeer' by Jan Brett, covering prediction, cause and effect, story elements, character feelings, summary writing, and discussion questions.