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

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

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

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

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

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

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

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.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

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

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

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

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

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

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

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

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

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

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

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

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

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

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

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

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

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

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.