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

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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 reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

The Siege of the Alamo was an important point in the Texas Revolution. Your youngster can learn the story of the siege in this worksheet.

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

This prediction activity engages students in thinking about the skill of Ãpredictingà from a writerÃs point of view.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

This worksheet introduces students to Jesse Owens, whose successes in the 1938 Olympics made history and paved the way for African-Americans in all sports and fields.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

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

Your young readers are sure to enjoy this story about Ralph and the discovery he makes on his walk. This worksheet will help strengthen your students' comprehension skills as they answer questions about the text.

Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

The Battle of Trenton was a turning point for the Americans in the Revolutionary War. Your young historian will learn the facts with this worksheet.

Learn some of the common Morse code prosigns with this fun activity!

This rubric chart helps students to learn how to grade the quality of the caption illustrations they come across in nonfiction texts.

Make reading time fun, with this classic short story by Rudyard Kipling. Then, complete a few comprehension activities on "How the Alphabet Was Made."

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

Use this worksheet to help students identify personified nouns and their respective verbs.