Did you know there is a shark that's nocturnal? Learn all about the nurse shark with a fun and informative coloring page!

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

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

Is your child crazy about sharks? Give him a fun and informational coloring page, all about the great white shark!

Bring books to life by having students create their very own character puppets! When they're finished, students can use the puppets to act out their favorite scenes.

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.

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

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.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

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.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

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.

Learn more about legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this nonfiction reading sheet from our Jewish-American Heroes series.

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 graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

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.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

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.