Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

What do you know about the wonderful country of Guatemala? Find out how the country got its name and what the people like to do for fun!

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they distinguish their own viewpoint from those of characters in a fiction text.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

When students note observations as they read, they gain a deeper understanding of their texts.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool violin facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. the Lincoln Memorial honors our 16th president.

A monkey, a fruit tree, and reading comprehension! Kids learn a Brazilian fairy tale and strengthen comprehension skills with this worksheet.

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Is Washington, D.C. a U.S. state or a city? Find out about our nation's capital with this fun, informative history worksheet.

Your young historian can explore the Mohawk tribe. This Native American group played an important role in American history.

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet! 

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.