In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

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.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

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

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

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

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

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.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Young readers can discover the history of the Choctaw Native American tribe with this history worksheet.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Dig your hands into some earth science with this soil sheet! Your little scientist can hone his reading skills as he learns what soil is and how it is formed.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

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

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.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.