After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

This worksheet will help your child organize the details needed to write about a book they've read!

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Ask students questions about "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer to develop their reading comprehension skills.

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

This Shakespeare biography, written for kids, teaches young readers, writers and thespians all about the literary giant.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

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.

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

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.

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

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.

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

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

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!

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

Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.