Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Read this cozy poem by A.A. Milne, then answer a reading comprehension question.

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

Learners will discover seven facts about Mars, then use these and their own research to draft a work of science fiction.

Help your early readers get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. They'll predict what will happen and identify the moral.

Learn more about this magnificent marsupial in this science and reading worksheet that presents some quick facts and a fun writing exercise!

Got a curious kid at home? Help him discover more about the kangaroo, the national animal of Australia and a favorite of zoo-goers everywhere.

Discover more about the dingo, a type of wild dog that lives in Australia, in this worksheet.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

What's a wombat? If you've got a kid learning life science, give her a fun introduction to animals with these wombat facts..

Use this worksheet to learn Cassowary facts, and introduce your child to an exotic species of bird from Down Under.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

In this reading fluency worksheet, second and third graders read a story about a sleepy sloth, then answer simple reading comprehension questions.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Read about Pete and all of his pets in this story. 

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the main idea the author wanted to communicate by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

Read a classic fable with your beginning reader! This story page for "The Ugly Duckling" will help build reading skills.

This worksheet practices story sequencing, an essential reading comprehension skill for first graders.

Learn about school uniforms around the world as students are going back to school!

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Read this poem, then illustrate your favorite part!

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.