Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

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

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

Explore a classic poem filled with imagination and wordplay with this third- and fourth-grade reading worksheet!

Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." Students will build their vocabulary and reading skills.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

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.

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

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

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.

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

Reading is so much more than just following words on a page—it's about deriving meaning from the text! Have your students read independently, and then check for comprehension by having them draw and write about their favorite parts.

Explore the sights and sounds of the prairie with this fourth- and fifth-grade reading-comprehension activity!

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.