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This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Using a Chart to Compare Books in a Series

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying&nbsp;key ideas from nonfiction texts.

Interesting Animals: Bats

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Text Features of Nonfiction Printed Text and Nonfiction Electronic Text

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.

What Makes a Fantasy?

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Reading Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams From Nonfiction Texts

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Comparing and Contrasting with Sentence Frames

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

Teach Me How To...

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

Characters and Settings in Noun Phrases

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

The Teal Pumpkin Project: Promoting Inclusivity

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Fruity Compare & Contrast

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

Caterpillar

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Visualize the Scene

What makes a poem a poem? And what makes a story a story? In this lesson, students learn to distinguish between different types of texts while analyzing the sentences and words they encounter.

Story vs. Poem

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.

Book Preview

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Learning About the Ocean

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

The Tortoise and the Ducks

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

The Crab that Played with the Sea

This literature lesson guides kids towards a deeper understanding of second grade texts through an exploration of character, setting, and plot. Kids will be challenged to answer the who, what, where, when and why of a story, in addition to determining the story's message. Two versions of the same story will be presented in order for second graders to see story elements in action.

Literature 1

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Write a Simple Summary

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Think Fast!

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Genre Guide & Reading Challenge

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Compare and Contrast Myths

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Point of View Practice

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Tracking Character Traits

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Inference Task Cards

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

The Fox and the Crow

How well do you know the Rumpelstiltskin story? Hone comprehension skills with this fun fairy tale mix up.

Rumpelstiltskin Story

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

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