Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Print out this minibook and use your imagination to illustrate a short version of this fun fairy tale!

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Read with Expression!

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

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

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

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!

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.

Election season is here, so pull out the crayons and let your future voter dive into the world of politics.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Children learn about Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and civil rights advocate best remembered for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement.

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

After reading informational books, have students share a summary with a partner. Then have them write out their retelling using this worksheet. Students will be masters of their topics when all is said and done!

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

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.