Help your child tap into this fictional attraction by sharing about their favorite character with a pen pal! Your young reader will use this fun postcard template to describe their favorite character, including their favorite piece of dialogue.

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.

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

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.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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!

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

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.

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.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

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

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

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

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Discover the history of the Seminole tribe with this worksheet! This tribe, originally from Florida, has a rich culture.

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

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

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!

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.

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

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

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

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