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.

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.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

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.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

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

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

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

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

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.

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 six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

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

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

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

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!

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