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

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

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

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

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!

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

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

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

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of rock 'n' roll music and the history of African-Americans in pop music!

Kids read a story about a puppy, then finish it by writing what they think will happen next.

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

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Use this activity to reinforce using sentence level context clues to decode challenging words in a nonfiction text!

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.

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale!