The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

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

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

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.

Test your child's reading comprehension with the story of "The Frog Prince"!

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

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

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

This short nonfiction text will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words—and they'll have fun learning all about the life cycle of a chicken in the process!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

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

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

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 worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.