Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

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

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

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

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

This worksheet introduces fifth graders to Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Read the poem, then draw a picture about the story of Old Mother Hubbard.

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Practice identifying text features with your kindergarten students using this handy text feature hunt worksheet.

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

As students read nonfiction books, have them keep track of the fun facts they're learning using this graphic organizer. After collecting five interesting facts in the bubbles, students can use them to write a summary of the book.

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

This shark is anything but fearsome, in fact, he's a bit adorable! Give your child a fun and informative coloring page, all about the whale shark.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Use this well-loved nursery rhyme to help your kindergarten students identify the letter A.

Using paired passages on soil and decomposers, students will compare and contrast information.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

Searching for a worksheet that will help your child practice their reading skills? This printable uses life science as a background to help young readers.