Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool violin facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

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.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

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

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

This shark is anything but fearsome, in fact, he's a bit adorable! Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, all about the whale shark.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.

Get to know some tundra animals as you look for them in the snow.

Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire for 63 important years. Students can read about Victoria's life in this history worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fact or Opinion.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.