After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

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.

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

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

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

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–5 of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. 

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

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

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

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

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

Help your students learn to analyze characters in literature with the help of this graphic organizer.

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

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

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

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.