First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

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

Enjoy The Raven by Edgar Allan poe in a whole new way with this printable mini-book version

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

After reading Jim Murphy's novel The Great Fire, allow students to engage with the book with this thoughtful letter-writing extension activity!

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

Use this worksheet to give your students confidence in reading nonfiction texts by familiarizing them with visual elements like diagrams, photographs, illustrations, and charts.

It’s fun to learn about books with friends! One of the best ways to get motivated to read is to get book recommendations. This worksheet helps students do just that in the format of a friendly letter.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summarizing with Sequence Words.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Basic Fiction Summaries.

Summarizing a whole book can be daunting, so why not start with just one page? Help students to retell information they’ve read in nonfiction books by choosing one page to summarize.