Help children hone their creativity and critical thinking skills while providing hands-on experience with design planning, reflection, and writing process.

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Inspire creative thinking this Earth Day with a nature-themed reflective writing prompt.

Give your second grader's logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect.

Sparks students' creative thinking with this Earth Day-themed reflective writing prompt.

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!

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.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Guide students to get the most out of non-fiction texts by thinking about their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know. When they finish, they can trim it to paste into a spiral-bound notebook.

Get your students thinking about the different sounds that the inflectional ending -ed makes when it's used to indicate the regular past tense.

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

Kids practice narrative writing with this personal prompt.

Welcome in the crisp autumn breezes with this fall-themed crossword for first and second graders!

Learn more about our planet with this fun crossword puzzle for second and third graders!

Help young readers think critically about the organization of a paragraph using this reading and writing activity. Students will read a paragraph about recycling and then choose the best sentences to add to the piece to make it even better!

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Do dogs bark, flap, or swing? Pair animals with relevant verbs in this first- and second-grade worksheet!

Can you complete this spring-themed crossword puzzle for first and second graders?

Learn how to do a crossword puzzle in this colorful Easter activity!

Can you uncover what’s missing in this first- and second-grade grammar worksheet?

Explore sentence structure with this first- and second-grade subject and predicate sorting worksheet!

Help students improve peer writing conferences with this reflection exercise. Students will think critically about the feedback they received, discussing the comments they found most and least helpful. Afterwards, have them share their best peer feedback!

Celebrate your favorite season in this informational writing worksheet!

Keep your first- and second-grade students from getting a brain freeze this season with this cool, winter word puzzle!

Develop an appetite for informational writing in this engaging worksheet!

Draw and describe your favorite animal in this delightful worksheet!