Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

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

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

In this activity, your class will examine nonfiction texts to determine an author's point, a supporting reason and two points of supporting evidence.

Find that formatting feature! In this formatting scavenger hunt, students will use nonfiction texts to look for chapter titles, subtitles, bulleted lists, and more.

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Students will rewrite the narration and point of view of various texts.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

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.

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.

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

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

Prepositions add valuable information to nonfiction texts by helping us understand where and when something happened. In this activity, students will seek to identify prepositions and use them to complete sentences with the help of a word bank.