Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

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.

Does your little learner have a tough time paying attention? Give him a fun activity where he'll practice following directions in order to solve a riddle.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Use this resource for fluency practice.

Story webs organize a story into one main idea and several details. Help your second grader read the story, then analyze it using the story web.

Children learn the difference between a fact and an opinion, then decide if each of eight sentences are facts or opinions.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

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

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

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.