2nd - 4th Grade Reading Resources : Page 18

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

Understanding who is telling the story is an important skill for young readers. Use this resource with your students to practice distinguishing their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

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

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about soul music and the history of African-Americans in pop music, all in this soulful worksheet!

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 compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

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.

Learn about these surprisingly diverse biomes, then test your biome and geography know-how with a desert-mapping activity.

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.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

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.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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

Children learn about the Sit-In movement in the United States, whereby Americans staged nonviolent sit-ins to protest businesses' racist segregationist policies.

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 your child understand the importance of preserving the environment, with this info-sheet about an endangered species: the Iranian jerboa.