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.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony with this social studies worksheet!

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

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