Five Elements of a Story The five elements of a story (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and...		Question-Answer Relationships Question-Answer Relationships, or QAR, is a reading comprehension strategy developed to...
Life Is Sweet: The Story of Milton Hershey Enhance reading comprehension with a lesson that is centered around a biography about Milton...		Establishing the Main Idea An important task of reading comprehension is to determine the importance and meanings of...
Inferences Making an inference involves using what you know to make a guess about what you don't know, or...		The Life of Milton Hershey Enhance reading comprehension with a lesson that is centered around a biography about Milton...
Questions Before, During, and After Reading To encourage critical reading, teachers should ask students questions about the text before,...		The Life of Abraham Lincoln -- Reading Comprehension Celebrate Presidents' Day with reading material about the life of Abe Lincoln and supporting...
Reading Comprehension Sequence Chain This detail-oriented graphic organizer helps students strengthen reading comprehension by...		Who Am I? – Character Description Distribute this printable worksheet that extends students' learning and enhances their...
Story Elements The ability to identify the elements of a story (plot, characters, setting, and theme) aids in...		Number the Stars The Newbery Award-winning book, Number the Stars, has educated many children about the...
Have a Heart Explore the meaning of everyday expressions that reference the heart and other parts of the...		A Map to Organization Enhance your instruction about story development with this graphic organizer that can be used...
Story Elements and Story Map Students record the different elements of a story, such as characters and setting, and then map...		The Herringbone: Main Idea and Supporting Details The object of this graphic organizer is to identify the main idea and supporting details.
"The Monkey's Paw" Short Story & Activities Read the full text of W.W. Jacobs' short story "The Monkey's Paw," then analyze the story with...		Cause and Effect Organizer Use this graphic organizer while teaching any subject to help your students understand the...
Activating Prior Knowledge Help your students be good readers: those who constantly try to make sense out of what they...		Visualizing Visualizing refers to our ability to create pictures in our heads based on text we read or...