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

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

Understanding the relationship of cause and effect is a cornerstone of strong reading comprehension skills. Students will seek to explain why events happened in a book of their choosing in this cause and effect activity.

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

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

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

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.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

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.

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.

Your young historian can explore the Mohawk tribe. This Native American group played an important role in American history.

Students will read the Bigfoot story and then answer questions about the reading.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

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

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

This worksheet is a quick-reference tool of space vocabulary for kids, with an exercise to use the words properly in provided sentences.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Kids will read about the Menehune legend and answer questions about it afterwards.

Find out all about the gorgeous mountains, delicious food and unusual national animals that make Peru such a unique and wonderful nation.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Searching for a worksheet to help with your kid's reading skills? This printable uses a classic Aesop Fable.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Cleopatra ruled Egypt and conquered the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Read a mini-biography on this remarkable woman in history.