Signal the Story Structure

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

Give your second graders some practise building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Use this lesson that features a rollercoaster-themed story map to teach your students about story structure and how to use a graphic organizer to visualize it.

This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Story Structure Rollercoaster* lesson.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

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

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. colour in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

Story webs organise a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Your kid may have seen the movie, but has he ever read the story of Rapunzel? Here, the story of Rapunzel is told in its entirety with two different endings.