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.

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

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.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

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

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

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

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.

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

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

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

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

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

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.

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

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!

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

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

This fun sequencing worksheet will help your child practice putting events in order, which will prepare her for reading comprehension.

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.

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

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

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.