Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

These baseball rules for kids are a sneaky way to spice up study time.

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Preschoolers and kindergarteners will enjoy finding the letter A in the lines of this classic children's poem and song.

Help your first grader learn about the different parts of a letter and the lost art of letter writing with this simple how-to worksheet.

This ocean-themed worksheet helps students with their reading comprehension skills as they figure out the order in which the story goes.

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Use this discussion guide to help readers reflect on chapters 6–11 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

This fact and opinion worksheet guides your child to learning the difference between facts and opinions. Try this fact and opinion worksheet with your student.

The story is mixed up! Kids will have to look at the pictures and read the words to put the story back in order again.

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!