This old Native American myth, The Raven Steals the Light, is the perfect story to spook -- but not scare -- kids this Halloween.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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.

Learn to extract information from sources with this handy worksheet, perfect for Little Leaguers and baseball fans.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

The “I Voted” sticker has become a tradition at polling booths around the country! Introduce children to this symbol of civic pride with this engaging coloring worksheet.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

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.

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

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

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

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

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.