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.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

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.

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

Use this fun story rollercoaster template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them consider these who, what, where, why, and how questions as they relate to the plot.

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.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

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

The Nez Perce is a Native American tribe in the Northwest U.S. This worksheet will hep your little learner to explore Native American history and culture.

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

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

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!

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

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

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