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

Do you remember the story of Little Red Riding Hood? Sit down for story-time with your little reader, and put these mixed-up scenes back in order!

After students read R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, watch the film adaptation of the movie to compare and contrast the written and film versions of the story!
 

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Little readers will love a fun storyboard activity with the three little pigs! Re-tell this classic story with these cut-out pictures of scenes from the story.

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Experience The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from two different points of view!

Help your students to process and retain the information they learn from watching videos with this handy worksheet. Students will consider their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know.

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.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Any kid studying the American Revolution will likely have to memorize this famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

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

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson.