In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

This open-ended reading reflection journal helps students to think about the books they've read.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of rock 'n' roll music and the history of African-Americans in pop music!

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

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

Help students analyze the words and form of a poem with this fun worksheet.

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.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

These baseball rules for kids are a sneaky way to spice up study time.

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.