Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

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

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

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

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

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

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.

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

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

Dig your hands into some earth science with this soil sheet! Your little scientist can hone his reading skills as he learns what soil is and how it is formed.

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.

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

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Learners get a brief introduction to the capital of the United States in this worksheet.

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

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

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

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.