Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

After reading Linda Sue Park's novel A Long Walk to Water, students demonstrate their understanding of the novel with these post-reading response prompts.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

Batter up! It's time to get a hands-on history lesson in this fun printable activity that flexes your fourth-grader's memory and comprehension muscles

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Using this template, readers will use symbols and words to identify the ways a character's actions, thoughts, and words change from the beginning to the end of a story.

Engage readers with a colorful artistic extension activity to go along with The Giver by Lois Lowry!

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

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

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Students practice comparing and contrasting two versions of the same piece of text—written and audio/visual—with this graphic organizer!

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Did you know that Queen Isabella of Spain paid for Columbus' expedition to the New World? Read more about this interesting woman in history.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

Imagine being around in colonial America. If you were reporting about the American Revolution what would you have said about the times?

After reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, watch the movie adaptation in order to compare the written and visual forms of the story!

Noun phrases can give readers important information about the characters and settings of a story. This worksheet will help your students identify noun phrases that describe characters and settings in fictional texts.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the form and structure of a literary text with this middle school writing worksheet.

Meet one of the most well-known Native American women in our country's history--Sacagawea!

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.

The Philadelphia Campaign was a year of battles with the Americans at Valley Forge. Students will hone reading skills and learn about the American Revolution.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity!