Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

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.

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!

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes 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.

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

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

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.

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

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

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 to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

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

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

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

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

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.

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

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

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

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