A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Read the text along with your child as she colors so she can learn more about Uncle Sam, an American icon.

Making notes about what you liked in an author's writing is the first step to building a strong relationship with a text.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

Look at the colorful illustrations and decide which text best describes the image!

Students take emojis from text to paper, using them as prompts for identifying and reflecting upon their own feelings.

Help your child sing along as she colors in this coloring page with the text to a classic Christmas carol, "Deck the Halls".

Children discover what community service is, along with examples, in this thoughtful worksheet.

Being able to identify when and where a story takes place is an important skill for young readers. After reading fiction books, check students’ comprehension by having them draw the setting of the story in this fun reading comprehension activity.

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

This worksheet is used with examples of the two kinds of book series, episodic and epic.

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

In this eighth-grade grammar and mechanics worksheet, students will learn how to use an ellipsis to indicate an omission when quoting from a text!

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.