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.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Your child can learn about the last manned space flight with this worksheet that works on history, reading comprenshion and science all in one.

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

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Help your students practice their informational reading skills as they learn about leafcutter ants!

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

This worksheet is designed to help students understand what is a heading is and practice writing them.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

Ask your students to read the story about Ty's birthday, then answer the comprehension questions by retelling main events of the story on the lines provided.

A reading comprehension assignment with monsters and a wickedly complex labryinth? Yes, please!

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

While the Americans lost the Battle of Guilford Court House, the aftermath led to the American victory at Yorktown. Learn more with this history worksheet.

Color in this cool scene at the White House, and learn a few White House facts too!

Get ready for Thanksgiving with this worksheet about Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims' first home in America.

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

Using this Venn diagram, young readers will compare and contrast two thematically similar works of nonfiction.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the argument and claims in a text in this middle grade worksheet.

Travel back in time to discover the Cheyenne tribe. Young readers will learn all about Native American history with this worksheet.

Even if you're not in Japan, you can celebrate Kodomo no Hi, or Children's Day. Read all about this popular Japanese holiday, like the special foods and toys!

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.

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.

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.