Do you know how clouds form? Get the basic idea of how moisture in the air can become a cloud.

Kids practice calculating volume using mental math with this cootie catcher.

Meet some famous short stories with our set of printable mini books.

Is your student a budding novelist? Start her career off on the right foot with this short story writing worksheet.

Encourage your child to turn his verbal creativity into a creative writing activity by penning a short story incorporating a few of his trademark expressions.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying root words in context.

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

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Use this organizer to compare facts from a nonfiction text with examples from a novel or short story.

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Children will read a short passage about Otis, then answer questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

Use this short story to help your students practice identifying the root words "son" and "sect" in context.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

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

This cool physics worksheet helps kids learn how centripetal force and centrifugal force can explain why short track speed skaters don't fall over during turns.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

With this worksheet, students will read a short text about Malala Yousafzai's fight for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan, and then answer questions about the importance of standing up for what they believe in.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.