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 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.

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.

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.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

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.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

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.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

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

Learn all about baseball history in this quick reading comprehension sheet that will get your kid up to speed on reading over spring break.

Before your child gets started writing research reports, help them learn that not all sources are created equal.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

Read this chapter from the classic book Pinocchio, and identify the verbs and verb clauses the author uses to create action and set the scene.

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

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

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

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

Do you know how to haiku? This haiku worksheet gives your budding poet practice with counting syllables and noticing the role of rhythm in poetry.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

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