Use this discussion guide to support students’ comprehension and analysis of chapters 1–4 of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders.

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Oh no, Jack's beanstalk story is all jumbled up! Cut out the pictures and fix the story sequence to help Jack get his story straight!

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Help your early readers get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. They'll predict what will happen and identify the moral.

Unravel a classic story from Greek mythology with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet for seventh and eighth-grade learners!

Use this resource for fluency practice.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

This reading comprehension worksheet features Kipling's "The Elephant's Child," an origin story that offers a whimsical explanation for the elephant's long trunk.

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Kindergarteners and first graders will read a simple story, then identify the picture that matches, in this early literacy worksheet.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.