Before reading Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, use these pre-reading prompts to engage students in a discussion about key story elements.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Analyze different points of views and perspectives in a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

In this nonfiction biography, learn how Nikola Tesla invented key technologies that are still used today.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Children learn facts about dolphin's evolution, behavior, and physical traits in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Use this graphic organizer to help students compare and contrast information from different sources of their choosing while researching a relevant topic.

Build background knowledge about social classes in the early 1900s as students prepare to read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

Children learn key vocabulary related to the executive branch of the U.S. government in this spelling worksheet.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Compare and contrast your traits with the character traits of other people.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Learn all about hurricanes in this earth science Q&A.

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

What if you met a snake who could make you rich? Enjoy one of the classic Panchatantra stories, animal fables from India that have a moral lesson.

Children learn about the history and legacy of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns formed after the passage of the 13th Amendment.