Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

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

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

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

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.