Elementary School Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 14

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

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

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Your students will use an abridged version of "The Princess and the Pea" to practice analyzing and expressing character traits with the help of a word bank.

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

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

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Every state has lots of court houses and hundreds of judges, but our country has set one court above all the rest -- the Supreme Court.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

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.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

This nonfiction text about soccer will help students to practice finding evidence to support the author's point.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice determining who is telling the story. Your students will also practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

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!

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.