Learn about the science behind one of nature's most awesome spectacles: monsoons.

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

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

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

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 graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Help your child monitor their progress as readers with this reading goals worksheet. The act of reflecting and goal setting will set students up for reading success!

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

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.

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

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

Travel back in time to discover the Cheyenne tribe. Young readers will learn all about Native American history with this worksheet.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

Get ready for Thanksgiving with this worksheet about Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims' first home in America.

With this worksheet, students will practice determining if the sentences fit under the category of fantasy or realism.

Jump-start your kid's excitement about kangaroos! Together, you can learn some cool kangaroo facts, like how kangaroos can jump up to 30 feet.

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

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.

Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

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.

Learn to work with primary sources by decoding the names, facts, and numbers in old memoirs, interviews and records.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

This short nonfiction text will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words—and they'll have fun learning all about the life cycle of a chicken in the process!

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.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

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