Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Close Reading Strategy.

Learn all about baseball history in this quick reading comprehension sheet that will get your kid up to speed on reading over spring break.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

This worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, helps refine knowledge manners that change from culture to culture.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Go on a reading adventure with Sinbad the Sailor, a hero of Middle Eastern myth and a great excuse to practice reading comprehension.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

In this old Nigerian folk tale, a young villager ends up marrying a real bonehead. (Sorry, we had to.)

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

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.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.