Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

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.

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

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

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

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

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

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

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Introduce learners to three inspiring indigenous women with this four-page reading comprehension worksheet!

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

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

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

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

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

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this upper elementary reading comprehension worksheet!

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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.

Introduce students to the classic poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.