In "The Elves and the Shoemaker," the reader meets a friendly shoemaker. This Grimm's fairy tale is told through colorable pictures and kid-friendly text.

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

How do the Sun and the Moon interact with the Earth, and how do all three depend on one another? Find out in this science worksheet.

Help your child understand cause and effect with this practice sheet.

It's up to your 2nd grader to make a story based on a prince, a princess and two huge grins. Try story elements like setting, background and a problem.

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

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

Let this worksheet cause you to develop your cause-and-effect skills!

Take your young reader on an adventure in the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Color the illustrations and practice reading and counting skills too!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparative and Superlative.

Explore the sounds and patterns of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Discover the rhythm and rhyme of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Signal Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

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.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

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

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.