Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

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.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

Help your child read deeper into a story by having him practice making inferences about what happened.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

In Aesop's classic fable, a tortoise and a hare race — but the winner may surprise you!

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

This nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet is a fun, approachable way for students to practice identifying key ideas from nonfiction texts.

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

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.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

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

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

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

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Encourage thoughtful media consumption with this set of television show comprehension questions.

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.

Dig your hands into some earth science with this soil sheet! Your little scientist can hone his reading skills as he learns what soil is and how it is formed.

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

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

Test comprehension with this fairy tale jumble! Put "The Ugly Duckling" story scenes back in order.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.