Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Teach your child about an endangered species with this information page, all about the Forest Owlet. They can color as they read some interesting facts.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

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.

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.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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

Paraphrasing is all about summing up a lengthy text, and it can be a great way to help your child hone reading comprehension skills.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

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.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

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

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.