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

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

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.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Your students will seek to read and complete sentences using a word bank of common reading comprehension terms, such as conflict and setting.

Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Geared toward second graders, this science worksheet has young scientists read about spiders and their webs and then demonstrate their nonfiction comprehension by filling in the diagram with the correct anatomical terms.

Here is a fresh and fruity way to learn a bit of life science. Sit down with your little one and teach them all the different parts of an apple!

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

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

Your students will use their imaginations 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.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.