Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

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

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

Build your learner's logical thinking skills by asking them to connect pictures that show what came first and what comes next.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

This open ended worksheet is a great way for students to practice sharing their opinions of read alouds while working on their reading comprehension skills.

Kids match pictures showing what came first with pictures showing what came next.

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

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.

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.