Get reading going with your own Three Billy Goats Gruff story booklet.

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

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

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Young readers can discover the history of the Choctaw Native American tribe with this history worksheet.

Dive into the fascinating world of seahorses in this watery worksheet! 

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they distinguish their own viewpoint from those of characters in a fiction text.

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

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