Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Test your child's reading comprehension with the story of "The Frog Prince"!

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Read this well-loved poem, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Pictures are a great tool to use when reading. By completing this worksheet, students develop reading comprehension skills as they analyze what comes next in a story using context cues and picture clues.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

This worksheet can help first graders to practice learning how to locate information using a glossary.

How many I's do the five little piggies have in their nursery rhyme? Kids find and count each letter I in the rhyme on this kindergarten reading worksheet.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

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