If your students struggle with how to compare and contrast texts, this worksheet can be used for reteaching or extra practice.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Encourage students to turn vacations into educational experiences. This activity asks students to research a famous destination, pull key information, and plug that information into a travel brochure.

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Your second grader can create his own presidential seal by coloring in this fun printable page.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Meet Harriet Tubman, a true American hero who devoted her whole life to caring for and protecting others.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

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

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Get an interesting lesson in science along with valuable reading practice with this Gregor Mendel biography worksheet.

Get students excited about taking reading notes with this bubbly worksheet! This fun format can be used to jot down quick notes about each chapter in your students’ books, then used as a reference for complete summaries when the time comes.

Get caught up in the drama of "Casey at the Bat" with this reader's theater script.

Use this resource to give your students practice reading a short nonfiction passage and recognizing the author’s viewpoint about the topic. Then, they will pick out the text evidence that supports the author’s viewpoint.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Read this creepy story about a mythological creature called a korrigan, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Learn some historical myths about gold with this worksheet, touching on the California Gold Rush, King Midas and Jason and the Argonauts.

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

Using this worksheet, students will focus on creating a personal timeline about their life.

Read about the taiga's climate and inhabitants, then complete a brief summary to reinforce what you've learned.

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.

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.

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.