Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson.