The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Find out all about the gorgeous mountains, delicious food and unusual national animals that make Peru such a unique and wonderful nation.

This story teaches students a moral and helps strengthen their sentence building skills.

In this yummy exercise, students will differentiate between statements of fact and opinion as they read all about chocolate!

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

Students learn to observe small details in text through repetition and the nursery rhyme, "The House that Jack Built."

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

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.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Who, Where, What, When, Why, and How Questions.

Engage students in reading by having them share books with peers. Students prepare for giving a book talk in which they'll describe what happens in the book, their favorite part, and whether or not they would recommend the book to a friend.

How was writing first invented? Find out by reading this delightful story by Rudyard Kipling, "How the First Letter was Written."

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

What do you know about the wonderful country of Guatemala? Find out how the country got its name and what the people like to do for fun!

Get ready for Thanksgiving with this worksheet about Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims' first home in America.