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.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Encourage thoughtful media consumption with this set of television show comprehension questions.

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

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.

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!

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.

Help your students find the perfect book for their reading level! In this activity, students will use the five-finger rule to find books that aren't too easy or too hard, but rather just right!

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Put the events of the story in sequential order from what happened first to what happened last. Then read the story to learn more about Rocky!

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

Test your child's reading comprehension with the story of "The Frog Prince"!

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

How well do you know your fables? Mix up storytelling time by putting The Boy Who Cried Wolf story back in order!

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

Test comprehension with this fairy tale jumble! Put "The Ugly Duckling" story scenes back in order.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.