Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

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

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

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Kids love nonsense, in case you haven't already noticed, and this wacky worksheet will work your wonderful wordsmith into a nonsense whirlwind.

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Get your kids writing about their reading! When students note key observations as they read, they have a better chance at understanding a text's message.

Help your little bookworm get to know the layout of a table of contents! Learners deconstruct this sample table of contents by answering the questions.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

This worksheet helps students learn from pictures and captions in nonfiction texts while also answering comprehension questions.

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

The Battle of Camden was a low point for the American forces in the Revolutionary War. Discover the errors made at the battle in this worksheet.

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!

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

This worksheet can help students determine fiction and nonfiction writing styles, an essential part of the first grade language arts curriculum.

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

Show kids how to sort fact from fiction with this worksheet.

While learning about literary genres, if you're suddenly being approached by magical little men and menacing monsters, you have been swept away into fantasy.

Challenge your students to find real world examples of the author’s purpose with this text-based scavenger hunt.

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