Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

These baseball rules for kids are a sneaky way to spice up study time.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

This reading stamina chart can be used to help students track and increase the amount of time they can spend reading to themselves during independent reading.

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

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.

Get your third grader familiar with basic poetry vocabulary in this diagram worksheet

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

If your budding reading is writing their first book report, help them nail down the plot with this quick review worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Assess your students' read-alouds with this versatile rubric.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

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

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.