Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.