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

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

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!

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

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.

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

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

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

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

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

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