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

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

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!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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 half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

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

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

E-mail is here to stay, but that doesn't mean kids shouldn't learn how to write a friendly letter.Teach your child how to write a letter to a friend.

Children learn to recognize how they can write with a certain reader, or audience, in mind, in this hands-on worksheet.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!