Reading Literature Lessons & Activities

Explore fiction reading skills with lessons, passages, and arcade-style activities for elementary, middle, and high school ELA.

Theme & Central Message

Identifying themes, messages, and lessons across short stories, novels, and fables.

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution in narrative texts.

Direct and indirect characterization, motivations, and how characters change over time.

How time, place, and context shape the events, conflicts, and mood of a story.

Internal and external conflicts and how they drive the plot forward.

First-person, third-person, and how point of view shapes readers’ understanding.

How authors use word choice, imagery, and details to create feeling and attitude.

Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and symbolism in fiction texts.

Drawing conclusions and supporting them with strong textual evidence.