This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

The classic children's fable "Stone Soup" is all about sharing! Share this story with your young reader to build basic comprehension skills.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

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.

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

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

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

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

This worksheet can help first graders to practice learning how to locate information using a glossary.

Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

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

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.