Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Children learn the difference between a fact and an opinion, then decide if each of eight sentences are facts or opinions.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Have your third grader practice their reading fluency with this passage about Autumn.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Use this graphic organizer to give students an opportunity to practice identifying the central idea of a text using key details.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!