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

This resource offers readers 10 different discussion focuses for critical reflection towards thesis writing development.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Help your young readers develop this important reading comprehension skill with this handy template that will help them learn to paraphrase any piece of writing by answering a few open-ended questions.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

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

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

What if you could make up your own animal species? Your child will have fun as she uses her imagination to hone her writing skills.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

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

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Kids learn how to "show" instead of "tell" in their writing.

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

This sheet will review the ways that writers can play with different text and font features for a variety of effects.

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.