In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

Your child will love learning all about the exploits of the famous European explorer Marco Polo with this attractively illustrated worksheet.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

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

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

Children learn about the food cycle in a rain forest as they color in a scene of snakes, butterflies, leopards, and other forest-dwelling creatures.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Children learn about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including key players and events, and how it contributed to the eventual passing of the 19th Amendment.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

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!

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.