Get your students thinking about themes as they compare and contrast two different picture books of their choice.

First thing's first: if your kid has a reading assignment, start by stating just the facts on this essential-info sheet.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

Read a classic fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", with your young reader.

If you're looking for an exciting genre, then mystery might just be the one for you!

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Get your students moving with this interactive sorting game!

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

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Learn all about the biography genre, including autobiography and journalism, and read some classic excerpts from its famous authors.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Have you ever wondered what happened to the huntsman in Snow White? Check out this reading comprehension worksheet and find out!

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

Children practice comparing and contrasting characters in this reading comprehension worksheet.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

Fairy tales are a great way to engage your students in reading! Help them determine the central message of the classic story, The Tortoise and the Hare, with this fun reading comprehension worksheet.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

You may not realize how many beloved books and award-winning movies are historical fiction. Get a taste of historical fiction and try writing some yourself.

Use this handy story map to help students organize the events and lessons in the fables and folktales they read.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

First graders will gain exposure to the classic text by Charles Perrault, "The Sleeping Beauty", with this worksheet. After reading the story, kids are tasked with reading comprehension questions about what they read.