This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

Shake up your science studies with this worksheet about earthquakes.

Help students analyze the words and form of a poem with this fun worksheet.

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Find out all about the gorgeous mountains, delicious food and unusual national animals that make Peru such a unique and wonderful nation.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Use this graphic organizer to support your students as they describe characters, settings, and events in detail, using specific details from the text.

Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 5–8 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

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.

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading and writing worksheet.

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

For each box, draw one event from this Mother Goose's Treasury poem.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

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

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

After reading a Christmas classic, The Elves and the Shoemaker , test your child's comprehension with this story map shoe!

Kids demonstrate their sequencing skills in this worksheet.

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

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

Learners work on their evidence-based reasoning skills in this engaging nonfiction comprehension worksheet.