Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

The Siege of the Alamo was an important point in the Texas Revolution. Your youngster can learn the story of the siege in this worksheet.

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

In this abridged Aladdin story, a poor beggar boy gets everything he desires with the help of a wily genie...but at what cost?

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

This prediction activity engages students in thinking about the skill of Ãpredictingà from a writerÃs point of view.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

It's time to find some rhymes! Help your budding poet learn to identify rhyme schemes in poetry with this worksheet.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

This worksheet introduces students to Jesse Owens, whose successes in the 1938 Olympics made history and paved the way for African-Americans in all sports and fields.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Use this Reader’s Theater Script to engage your students as they practice reading fluently.

Your young readers are sure to enjoy this story about Ralph and the discovery he makes on his walk. This worksheet will help strengthen your students' comprehension skills as they answer questions about the text.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.