Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

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.

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

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

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

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

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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

Study the map of terrestrial biomes, then use it to answer questions.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

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.

In Blarney: A Game of Deception, children learn about the legend of the Blarney Stone, along with the rules for a fun game where they must decide which player is lying!

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

There are many endangered species all around the world. Read about the Amur leopard and why it's endangered with this information page.

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

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.

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

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.

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

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.