Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

Familiarity with different types of texts is an important part of the first grade reading curriculum. In this worksheet, kids read Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Caterpillar" and then answer questions about what they read.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

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

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

A rebus story is told using pictures and drawings instead of words.

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.

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing. Your little historian can learn about Florence's life in this biography worksheet.

Learning how to figure out the trickier words is an essential tool for readers of all levels. This fun worksheet helps students practice using context clues and pictures to decode tricky words and improve their reading fluency skills.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

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.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Get excited about going into nature as you read this passage about a camping trip!

Looking for a way to help kids keep track of the longer books they’re reading? Tuck this sheet into their reading folders! After completing each chapter students will use the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to summarize their reading.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

Build reading and vocabulary skills with a fun folktale coloring series! She'll color the illustrations and clip the five pages together to make a storybook.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Shifting Points of View.

After reading a short text about a new puppy, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.