Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

This worksheet asks first graders to read, write and draw all about summer!

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

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.

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

Review and record the elements of a story in this first- and second-grade worksheet!

Learn more about this magnificent marsupial in this science and reading worksheet that presents some quick facts and a fun writing exercise!

Children are introduced to Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine Supreme Court justices, and the only Latina, in this reading and writing worksheet.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

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.

What if Paul Bunyan stepped into the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story? Make writing practice creative and fun for your child with a coloring page story starter.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

What if Peter Pan and Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" met? Your child gets to decide what happens next and write a story based on this fun coloring page scene!

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.

Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.

Don’t just read nonfiction—learn from and engage with it in this graphic organizer!

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

This worksheet will have your child read a brief passage, and then decide on his favorite part.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Does an octopus have 8 tentacles? Test your fact and opinion identification skills with this colorful undersea adventure.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!