After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Kids will first read the story about Alice and her dog Bobo, then write her own middle and ending to the story.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

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.

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

Discover the history of the Seminole tribe with this worksheet! This tribe, originally from Florida, has a rich culture.

Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.

Learn to extract information from sources with this handy worksheet, perfect for Little Leaguers and baseball fans.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

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

The “I Voted” sticker has become a tradition at polling booths around the country! Introduce children to this symbol of civic pride with this engaging coloring worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

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

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun pet-themed worksheet.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

This reading worksheet highlights important vocabulary words and the main purpose of a text.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

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

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.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!