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Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

In Timeline of Sonia Sotomayor's Life (So Far), third and fourth graders reference a timeline of Sotomayor's life to answer questions about her life.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

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.

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

This worksheet gives kids the opportunity to compare and contrast two different versions of the Greek myth of Persephone.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

In this nonfiction biography, learn how Nikola Tesla invented key technologies that are still used today.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

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.

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

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

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

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

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

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Children are known to be excellent volunteers! Channel this skill and passion for helping others by facilitating a community service project, and then have them use this worksheet to reflect more deeply about their experience.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

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

Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

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

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

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

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

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

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

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

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.