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

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!

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

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

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

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

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.

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.

Get ready to read! Set students up for success by showing them how to preview texts before reading. Young readers are challenged to predict what the book is about using the title and illustrations before diving into the story.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

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

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

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

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.