Using Retelling Using Key Details Activity,students read Floppy Ears to retell the story by putting key events in order.

Using Asking Questions about a Story Activity, students Discuss a topic or read a book aloud using Question Cards to help guide questions andanswers about the topic.

Using Compare Books Activity, studentsidentify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.

Using this Complete Sentences with Subject and Predicate Activity, students match subjects and predicates to create sentences with complete ideas.

Using Describing Key Ideas Activity,students make up something that the Person on the card might say to show the key idea.

Using Making Connections in a Story Activity, studentsmake connections as they read to build their understanding of what they have read.

Using Asking Questions about a Story Activity, students Discuss a topic or read a book aloud using Question Cards to help guide questions andanswers about the topic.

Using Story Elements Organizing What You Read Activity, students use activity worksheets and graphic organizers to describe the characters, setting and events.

Using Asking Questions about a Text Worksheet, students ask questions to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood while reading or being read to.

Using this Counting and Sorting Pictures Activity, students match the pictures to their correct categories to find similarities between items in a group.

Using the Talking to Peers Assessment Worksheet, students respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to writing as needed.

UsingCharacters Voice and Point of View Worksheet, students keep track of different types of voice characters use to show their point of view in a story.

Using Creating Images in Text Worksheet, students create an diagram, a drawing, or even take a photograph to help support the text.

Using Endings Worksheet, students write how the ending of each story solves problems and resolves events of the story to compare the two similar stories read.

Using Characters and Story Plots Worksheet, studentsread two stories with similar plots, or characters to compare the elements from the two stories.

Using Compare and Contrast Points of a Text Worksheet, students compare two texts on the same topic to determine how they are alike and different.

Using Comparing Events Worksheet, students compare two informational texts to compare two events to determine how they are alike and different.

Using Comparing Similar Texts Illustrations Worksheet, students compare the illustrations from two texts to determine how they are alike and different.

Using Arthur's TV Trouble Worksheet,students retell the story by describing the story elements of any given story to build their reading comprehension.

Using Books My Students are Reading Worksheet, teachers keep track of the stories their students are reading to record the status of the class.