Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Use this resource for fluency practice.

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

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

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

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

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

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

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

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

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.

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

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.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence in their answers.

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.