Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Cause and Effect Structure.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool crab facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

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

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

A cinquain poem is a five line poem that does not rhyme. Your students can read an example of a cinquain poem, then try writing a few of their own.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

It’s census time! Travel back to 1930 to analyze the census data for the household of Walt Disney.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Review Civil War key terms and people with this history sheet. Your child will decide which terms describe the Confederacy and which describe the Union.

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.

Make reading time fun, with this classic short story by Rudyard Kipling. Then, complete a few comprehension activities on "How the Alphabet Was Made."

This Rapunzel story is missing some picturesâand in the wrong order! Test reading comprehension skills by arranging the events in the most logical order.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when using description.

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

Use this activity with your students to compare themes between fiction texts.

Introduce children to American playwright Lorraine Hanberry, who was only 29 years old when she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play for "A Raisin in the Sun."

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.