Elementary School Comprehension Questions Activities

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Plan a family dinner based on the "Little House" books, and encourage reading in the household!

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.