Elementary School Reading Comprehension Resources : Page 35

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Paraphrasing is an important skill for writing a research paper. Students can practice putting someone else's writing into their own words.

This worksheet will enable your readers to examine several books in a series and compare and contrast the main features across the texts.

Use this play planner to give your students a head start on writing their own play!

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

When reading nonfiction books, it’s important to understand the meaning of related vocabulary words. In this activity, students identify sentences that include key vocabulary. When they're done they'll hold the key to reading success!

Use these discussion cards to get your students talking about the elements that are unique to the fantasy genre.

What is the purpose of a narwhal tusk? Explore some interesting new findings about the narwhal, also known as the unicorn whale.

Teach your child history, science and reading all at once with this short biography of Marie Curie, a scientist and the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize.

Poor Odysseus was just trying to get home when he ran into the Cyclops monster. Find all about it in this epic Greek myth!

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool violin facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Students will learn how to read a chart of real mountain elevations and answer questions based on this worksheet.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool jellyfish facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Do you know what a memoir is? This worksheet will tell you and show you some great examples from famous memoirs.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Point of View Pronouns.

Students will strengthen their reading comprehension with this challenging text and the accompanying questions.

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Does your child have an ear for rhyme or a passion for poetry? Have her examine the rhyme scheme of this silly limerick, and soon she'll be making her own!

n this funny fairy tale, a brave young man has a few run-ins with some boastful ghosts.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.