Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Become a storyteller with this fun reading comprehension activity! Use your creativity to fill in the story where it's missing text.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

Will Jelly ever fly again? Find out by putting the sentences in sequential order from beginning to end.

Use this exercise to give your students practice developing an opinion about a nonfiction topic. They will read a short passage and express an opinion about the topic based on the evidence in the text.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Read this version of The Wild Hunt with your little boy or ghoul this Halloween, then answer the comprehension questions at the end.

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

Read more about the Florida Skunk Ape and one of the most famous encounter stories. Then, use your imagination to write a letter about the encounter.

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

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

This reading response worksheet gives the "evil" stepsisters a chance to defend themselves.

Give your beginning reader a fun way to practice reading comprehension with a classic story: "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," by Rudyard Kipling.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Support students to construct summaries of informational books by using the sentence frames on this handy worksheet. Your students will get useful practice retelling what they've learned from their nonfiction reading.

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

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.

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

Get caught up in the drama of "Casey at the Bat" with this reader's theater script.