Use this resource with your students to practice one of the core reading strategies: determining importance. Support your young learners as they read, judge, justify, and defend their understanding of a text.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

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

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Use this resource for fluency practice.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Follow two determined racers on an unforgettable journey with this third- and fourth-grade poetry worksheet!

Use this resource to closely read a nonfiction text, come up with questions, and use text evidence to find the answers.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

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

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

Your young readers are sure to enjoy this story about Ralph and the discovery he makes on his walk. This worksheet will help strengthen your students' comprehension skills as they answer questions about the text.

Come explore the ocean blue as you dive into this aquatic nonfiction passage!