In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

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

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

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

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

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

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

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

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

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!

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?