Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

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

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

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

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.

Get your students excited about making text connections!

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.

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.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.