This reading comprehension worksheet features Kipling's "The Elephant's Child," an origin story that offers a whimsical explanation for the elephant's long trunk.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

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

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Use this resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about a major historical event. Students will read a passage about the Tsunami of 2004 and determine the author’s viewpoint as they establish the

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

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

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.

"We can fly! We can fly" Your child may never fly, but they'll have a soaring good time with this Peter Pan story and worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Identifying the Author's Purpose.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Read this famous Norse myth starring Sif and Loki and find out how mythology shapes our understanding of the world around us.

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

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

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

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

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.