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Read an enlightening passage about light pollution and learn ways to bring back the dark night skies in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet!

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Discover why an odd-looking tree is known as Africa’s "tree of life" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Learn all about the fascinating field of food science in this four-page informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Give students an opportunity to learn about William Penn and his contributions to early American history.

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

How is a train like a bird? Find out in this sixth-grade informational reading comprehension worksheet all about biomimicry!

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

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.

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

Use the worksheet The Star: Mae Jemison to help learners understand the format of biographies while reading more about an important African American figure.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.