Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

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!

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

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

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

It looks like someone's jumbled up this story! Kids will love putting this Stone Soup story back together, a great reading comprehension exercise.

Use this simple and effective graphic organizer to have students predict or describe events from their own lives or from stories.

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.

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Learners get a brief introduction to the capital of the United States in this worksheet.

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Help your beginning reader boost comprehension skills with this fun worksheet, where he'll map the events in a story.

In this classic fable by Aesop, the tortoise learns an important lesson when he catches a ride into the sky with a duck. Exposing kids to classic texts like "The Tortoise and the Duck" is a great way to give them important reading practice.

Little readers will love a fun storyboard activity with the three little pigs! Re-tell this classic story with these cut-out pictures of scenes from the story.