Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Get an interesting lesson in science along with valuable reading practice with this Gregor Mendel biography worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

After completing the novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts! 

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

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

Learn some historical myths about gold with this worksheet, touching on the California Gold Rush, King Midas and Jason and the Argonauts.

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Help students reflect on chapters 5–8 of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time with this two-page discussion guide!

Whether you love the great outdoors or are preparing for the zompocalpyse, this round-up of survival skills will help kids be prepared for any disaster!

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Your little learner can learn about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen as he hones his reading comprehension skills with this history worksheet.

Have you ever wondered what keeps the moon in orbit? Newton's first law gets a quick introduction, too, in this worksheet for kids. Check it out!

Use this resource to organize the different ways a character tries to solve a problem in a fiction text.

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

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

We all know the classic fairy tale, and now you have a chance to put your own spin on the story of Cinderella! Your kids can let their imaginations take flight as they add their own plot twists and illustrations to the beloved story.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

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

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19–23 of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games with this helpful discussion guide! 

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.

Travel back in time to discover the Cheyenne tribe. Young readers will learn all about Native American history with this worksheet.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.