Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

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

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

What are the effects of storms and other weather events? Students will create flow charts that represent the multiple effects that are a result of specific weather causes.

Poor Odysseus was just trying to get home when he ran into the Cyclops monster. Find all about it in this epic Greek myth!

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

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

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

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

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.