This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

What will you be doing on Saturday? Jamie will be on a fishing boat with her grandpa. Read all about her grandpa's boat and then answer the questions.

Read the story of the magical soup pot, then answer two reading comprehension questions.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

This worksheet practices story sequencing, an essential reading comprehension skill for first graders.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.