Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

These baseball rules for kids are a sneaky way to spice up study time.

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

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

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

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

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

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

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

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