All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Prepare students for reading Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

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

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

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

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.

After reading the first few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, engage your students in a discussion with this two-page novel study guide!

Your kindergarteners can help decide what happened in the story by carefully looking at each image and reading the parts of the story.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this pre-reading discussion guide to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.