Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Did you know mako sharks can leap 30 feet out of the water? Give your first grader a fun and informational coloring page, all about the mako shark!

Is it a tiger or a shark? Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, sure to satisfy any shark fanatic!

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Students will learn how to read a chart of real mountain elevations and answer questions based on this worksheet.

Is your kid struggling with reading comprehension? Try this short and sweet story from Oscar Wilde.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Oh no, this story has gotten all jumbled! Practice recognizing story order by putting these panels back together.

Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

Practice some hands-on storytelling with these shadow puppets, modeled after The Three Little Pigs.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Kids love nonsense, in case you haven't already noticed, and this wacky worksheet will work your wonderful wordsmith into a nonsense whirlwind.

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

Have you ever heard of Julbock, the Christmas goat, or Tomten, the gift-giving Christmas elf? Learn how to celebrate Christmas in Sweden!

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Use this All About Misty Copeland Reader to help early readers learn about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theater.

Use this activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write procedural texts. Students are prompted to write step-by-step instructions for how to do or make something of their choosing.

Children learn about the history of the cycling event, one of the oldest sports in modern Olympic Games history.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

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.

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

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Have your students think of story elements as ingredients for a delicious narrative! Young writers will consider setting, characters, the problem, and the solution with this fun pre-writing organizer!