Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Ever wonder how the plasma TV came to be? Read a brief history of the television with this ode to inventors.

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

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

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

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.

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.

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

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

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.

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.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

In this yummy exercise, students will differentiate between statements of fact and opinion as they read all about chocolate!

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.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

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

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

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.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale!