After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

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

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

These fun dog-themed worksheets will help fifth graders practice their reading comprehension skills.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool octopus facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

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.

Get swept up in this comprehensive worksheet about the awesome power of dust storms.

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

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.

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

Children learn about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including key players and events, and how it contributed to the eventual passing of the 19th Amendment.

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Children learn about writer and poet Langston Hughes in this Historical Heroes: Langston Hughes worksheet.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

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

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

The Philadelphia Campaign was a year of battles with the Americans at Valley Forge. Students will hone reading skills and learn about the American Revolution.

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.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

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

The history of Valentine's Day is full of theories about how the holiday began. Read about the history of Valentine's Day with this exercise and activity.

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.