This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

This reading stamina chart can be used to help students track and increase the amount of time they can spend reading to themselves during independent reading.

Maintaining a reading log is a fun way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Students will keep track of their month-by-month reading stamina and practice their bar graphing with this reading log worksheet.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

We all know the classic fairy tale, and now you have a chance to put your own spin on the story of Cinderella! Your kids can let their imaginations take flight as they add their own plot twists and illustrations to the beloved story.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

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.

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

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.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

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

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Will Jelly ever fly again? Find out by putting the sentences in sequential order from beginning to end.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

This rubric can be used with any lesson where students are learning or practicing fluency.

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

Help your child monitor their progress as readers with this reading goals worksheet. The act of reflecting and goal setting will set students up for reading success!

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

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.