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.

Learn to extract information from sources with this handy worksheet, perfect for Little Leaguers and baseball fans.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool octopus facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

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

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.