After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

Learn more about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often simply called "The Wall," with this interesting printable.

How well do you know your country's past presidents? Here is a challenging series of match-up games, featuring U.S. presidents!

This fun worksheet serves as a great visual for your kids to organize their thoughts around the elements of a story. After students have finished their story, have them fill out this handy slide graphic organizer with plot, protagonist, and antagonist.

If some of these lyrics sound familiar, that's because America the Beautiful is a famous national song! Learn all of the lyrics with this worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.

Use this play planner to give your students a head start on writing their own play!

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Use this worksheet to show how to compare characters’ thoughts and actions.

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Kids who are just starting to read nonfiction can get their feet wet with this easy Julia Child biography that has a quick comprehension exercise at the end.

Use this paragraph frame worksheet to support ELs as they navigate through the process of retelling text using transition words. This template can be used as a scaffold for any fictional text in the classroom!

Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.

Help your little bookworm get to know the layout of a table of contents! Learners deconstruct this sample table of contents by answering the questions.

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.