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

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.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

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.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Read a one-page adaptation of the Japanese myth, “The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child” and answer a variety of eighth-grade comprehension questions!

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.