Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

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

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Discover the history of the Seminole tribe with this worksheet! This tribe, originally from Florida, has a rich culture.

Your young historian can explore the Mohawk tribe. This Native American group played an important role in American history.

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

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Use this fairy tale story map to follow the details of your child's favorite stories and strengthen his reading skills.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

The story is mixed up! Kids will have to look at the pictures and read the words to put the story back in order again.

We all know the story of the tortoise and the hare... but this story is all mixed up! Build basic comprehension skills with a fun storyboard activity.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children will learn about the St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Students will read a short biography of Keller, then answer a thoughtful prompt designed to help them reflect on what they have read.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Kids will learn more about the meaning of a monster hoax and read about some of the most famous hoaxes.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.