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

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

If your child prefers scaly and slithery to soft and fluffy, here's a worksheet on the goanna, a large lizard that lives in Australia.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

This worksheet can help students determine fiction and nonfiction writing styles, an essential part of the first grade language arts curriculum.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

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

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

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.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

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

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

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.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.