Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Get an interesting lesson in science along with valuable reading practice with this Gregor Mendel biography worksheet.

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.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Learn some historical myths about gold with this worksheet, touching on the California Gold Rush, King Midas and Jason and the Argonauts.

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

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 worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Your little learner can learn about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen as he hones his reading comprehension skills with this history worksheet.

We all know the classic fairy tale, and now you have a chance to put your own spin on the story of Cinderella! Your kids can let their imaginations take flight as they add their own plot twists and illustrations to the beloved story.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

This worksheet can help students determine fiction and nonfiction writing styles, an essential part of the first grade language arts curriculum.

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.

A fun game for students, book bingo can either be played as a game to diversify student reading or as a way to have students begin interacting and talking about the types of reading materials they enjoy.