Dive into reading with these short biographies. Your second grader will love learning about the people who have shaped America, while honing his reading and unscrambling skills.

Swashbuckling stories sighted! Travel the seas with these reading pages on real figures from history, with the coloring and cutting projects your child needs to bring his pirate alter-ego to life.

This workbook is a festive way to work on reading comprehension strategies.

Take reading a piece and a clue at a time to help your child improve his reading skills. Ask and answer questions like who, what, where, when and why, about details, key info and using text evidence.

Spark an interest in reading with an introduction to four classic tales. Coloring pages make old and new stories accessible, especially for reluctant readers.

Practice reading, writing, and understanding poetry with the help of the Mudville Nine by exploring the classic poem, "Casey at the Bat."

It's fact vs. opinion statements about interesting animals in this workbook. Kids will also think about how diagrams and images help clarify reading passages.

The world is full of amazing creatures! Learn about a few from around the globe, as your child hones reading skills in this fact-filled workbook.

In this three-part series, a child anticipates a family getaway. Practice summarizing works of fiction, identifying chronology, interpreting pictures, and identifying homophones and homographs through this series of reading and comprehension activities.

Practice reading comprehension with a wide variety of world tales, some famous and some little-known. The book shines a light on supernatural stories, monstrous myths, and terrifying true-life tales.

What's a metaphor? How do you haiku? Kids will hone reading and writing skills with this book, from a simple syllable counting exercise to inventing rhymes and tangling with the Jabberwocky!

Reading without the bah-humbugs: take a look at "A Christmas Carol" with story pages young readers can bring to life with color, and step-by-step analysis pages to get them thinking.

Make book reports a breeze with this workbook that contains plenty of pages for kids to thoroughly investigate and write about a book.

Children learn about a variety of aspects of Native American life and culture in this social studies workbook.

Can you read 100 books in a day? Run a mile in 30 seconds? Kids can compare fact and fiction with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and others to learn about story structure, character analysis and hyperbole.