Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Students practice using keywords to prepare for summary writing.

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

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

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Designed to give students practice on identifying script components, this worksheet is a great way to help students practice their writing fluency.

Get excited about going into nature as you read this passage about a camping trip!