Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

If your students struggle with how to compare and contrast texts, this worksheet can be used for reteaching or extra practice.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Learners get a brief introduction to the capital of the United States in this worksheet.

Students will read an adaptation of the classic story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen. Then they'll seek to determine the author’s purpose and explain their reasoning.

Help your students to process and retain the information they learn from watching videos with this handy worksheet. Students will consider their previous knowledge, what they learn, and what they still want to know.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

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

Use this worksheet to teach your students how to write declarative sentences with details from an informational text.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Learn some of the common Morse code prosigns with this fun activity!

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

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.

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.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

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

Celebrate the contributions of famous Irish Americans with this worksheet. Read a bit about each famous figure and complete a comprehension exercise.

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.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

Use this ocean-themed worksheet to measure your students' understanding of simple nonfiction text features. Your little bookworm will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about the whole book.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.