When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Use this reading comprehension exercise with your students to practice determining word meaning.

Use this reading comprehension passage with your students to practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

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 resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Text Features for Comprehension.

This worksheet will have your students use codes to help them understand the meaning of the story.

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

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

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

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

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

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Let's make some nonsense! Using "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, a poem famous for its otherworldly wacky words, your child makes his own nonsense.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.