Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

One way to bring books to life for students is to have them empathize with one of the characters. This fun worksheet engages students in analyzing how a character’s feelings change over the course of the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

With this open-ended worksheet and graphic organizer students can practice locating events and connecting these events to a central idea.

Who is telling the story? Words like I, me, she, and he can help figure this out! Use this exercise with your students to practice determining who is telling the story.

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.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

Travel back in time to ancient China in this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Nightingale.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Election season is here, so pull out the crayons and let your future voter dive into the world of politics.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

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.

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

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

Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

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.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

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.