Reading Resources : Page 13

Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by building background knowledge about the rise of Hitler in Germany after World War I.

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

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.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Use this simple organizer to help students track and record key ideas when reading and summarizing nonfiction texts.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Students will use context clues as they select the meaning of words.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

Learn more about this amazing artist in this printable biography when studying the fine arts or Black History Month.

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

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

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

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!