Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

Does your little learner have a tough time paying attention? Give him a fun activity where he'll practice following directions in order to solve a riddle.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Children look at a picture, then decide what should happen next, in this fun early literacy worksheet.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

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.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.