Reading Resources : Page 21

Boost your first grader's reading comprehension by using a story map to outline a story visually.

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!

E-mail is here to stay, but that doesn't mean kids shouldn't learn how to write a friendly letter.Teach your child how to write a letter to a friend.

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit’s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

This worksheet provides a sample table of content and comprehension questions to go along with them to help kids practice.

This great brain teaser challenges your child to unscramble president names and a riddle. It's a fun Presidents Day worksheet featuring Mount Rushmore!

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy of writing fiction summaries with these reading passages.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Read a one-page adaptation of the Japanese myth, “The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child” and answer a variety of eighth-grade comprehension questions!

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Young historians get to know the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, with this history and civics crossword puzzle.