Take the monotony out of writing chapter summaries with this fun and creative alternative! Rather than writing out summaries, students will get to create illustrations and captions for major events from each chapter of their book.

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

The “I Voted” sticker has become a tradition at polling booths around the country! Introduce children to this symbol of civic pride with this engaging coloring worksheet.

Students become authors as they dream up the best book ever with this worksheet.

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

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

Not all predictions are created equal. In this worksheet, students seek to identify the events that are most likely to happen while explaining their thinking.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

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

Get mischievous during story time and read the story of "Rumpelstiltskin", abridged for your first grader.

This old Native American myth, The Raven Steals the Light, is the perfect story to spook -- but not scare -- kids this Halloween.

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

Meet Harriet Tubman, a true American hero who devoted her whole life to caring for and protecting others.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

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.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing. Your little historian can learn about Florence's life in this biography worksheet.

This worksheet prompts students to identify and find different text features to build their reading comprehension skills.

Have you ever wondered what happened to the huntsman in Snow White? Check out this reading comprehension worksheet and find out!

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this play planner to give your students a head start on writing their own play!

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.