Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

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.

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

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

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

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!

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.

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

We all know the classic fairy tale, and now you have a chance to put your own spin on the story of Cinderella! Your kids can let their imaginations take flight as they add their own plot twists and illustrations to the beloved story.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

This compare and contrast exercise will give your students practice recording information about two similar fiction texts.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Learn all about baseball history in this quick reading comprehension sheet that will get your kid up to speed on reading over spring break.

Before your child gets started writing research reports, help them learn that not all sources are created equal.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

Teach your little leprechaun about the various St. Patrick's Day traditions and other fun parts of this special Irish heritage day.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

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.

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

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.