CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
In Jackson's most well-known short story, "The Lottery," a town participates in an annual ritual. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Author's Purpose Pie
Third graders will determine the authors purpose in creating a story.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Types of Conflict
Students will learn about the four major types of conflict. They will use children's books to identify the types of conflict used, as well as create their own narratives using one of the types of conflict.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Frogs
First graders gather information from a variety of texts to more deeply understand the connections between literary and informational texts. They build on knowledge of the seasons to focus on the life cycles of animals, specifically...
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: A Fish With a Wish [Pdf]
A fable about a fish who learns how to make the most important wish.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Jump Rope Competition
Read "Jump Rope Pro," a short literary text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: The Scary Hike
Read "The Scary Hike," a short literary text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Blueberry Pancakes
Read "Blueberry Pancakes," a short literary text, and then answer ten reading comprehension questions that follow.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Reading Literature: Determine Theme/central Idea
A definition of theme or central idea along with a link to a practice activity. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
Curated OER
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Literature: Summarize
An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: The Fir Tree
Read the story "The Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Andersen, and test your comprehension by answering the ten multiple choice questions and two extended response questions that follow. Answers can be printed, emailed, or saved.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Twenty Questions
For this lesson each student will have a turn in the "hot seat" where they answer class questions about a book they are reading including questions about the characters, setting, and plot.
TES Global
Blendspace: Interpreting Literature Terms
A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.
Courseware Solutions
Wordville: Monty and Stella Save the Day
Read a short literary text called "Monty and Stella Save the Day," and then choose the correct answer for comprehension questions at the end of the selection.
Other
Worksheet Plus: Give and Get
Read a short literary text called "Give and Get," and then choose the correct answer for comprehension questions at the end of the selection.
Other
Worksheet Plus: Don't Talk to the Parrot
Read a short literary text called "Don't Talk to the Parrot," and then choose the correct answer for comprehension questions at the end of the selection.
Other
Worksheets Plus: Funny Camping
Read a short literary text and then choose the correct answer for comprehension questions at the end of the story.
Other
Prezi: Beginning, Middle, and End
Based on the story, Harry the Dirty Dog, this slideshow introduces the different elements of the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
Courseware Solutions
Worksheetsplus: 1st and 2nd Grade Sight Word Reading Comprehension: Hot Spell
Read a short literary text titled "Hot Spell," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
Courseware Solutions
Worksheetsplus: Native American Reading Comprehension: The Dream Catcher
Read a short literary text titled "The Dream Catcher," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
Other
Worksheetsplus: 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension: Bad Hair Day
Read a short literary text titled "Bad Hair Day," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
Other
Worksheetsplus: 3rd Grade Reading: Leary and the Leprechaun
Read a short literary text titled "Leary and the Leprechaun" and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
Other
Worksheetsplus: Diwali Reading Comprehension: The Diwali Legend of Rama and Sita
Read a short literary text titled "The Diwali Legend of Rama and Sita," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
Other
Worksheetsplus: Animal Stories Reading Comp.: Two Frogs Go to the Big City
Read a short literary text titled "Two Frogs Go to the Big City," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.