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.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

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.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

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.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

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

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

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

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

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!

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

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

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

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

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.