Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this upper elementary reading comprehension worksheet!

Readers will delight in this first (worst) day of school story, and practice cause and effect with this funny worksheet.

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Teach your child about an endangered species with this information page, all about the Forest Owlet. They can color as they read some interesting facts.

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

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

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

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.