Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

How well do you know your fables? Mix up storytelling time by putting The Boy Who Cried Wolf story back in order!

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

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.

Jump-start your kid's excitement about kangaroos! Together, you can learn some cool kangaroo facts, like how kangaroos can jump up to 30 feet.

The Three Little Pigs has story words unique to it, can you guess which those are? Help your child improve their vocabulary with this matching game.

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

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.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

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

Prepare students for reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Color in the pictures that go with the classic nursery rhyme "Frere Jacques."

This worksheet provides a sample table of content and comprehension questions to go along with them to help kids practice.

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

Your young historian will learn about the Iroquois League with this worksheet. He'll learn some important U.S. history as he practices his reading.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–8 of Anne of Green Gables.