Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Explore the sounds and patterns of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

Discover the rhythm and rhyme of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

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.

Use the templates to assemble and stage a puppet show based on the story.

Kids compare and contrast two famous fairy tales with a Venn diagram in this worksheet.

Students will read and answer questions about the Bradley family's summer vacation. 

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

Students will cite instances of cause and effect from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their fiction readings.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

Learn how frogs and butterflies transform as they grow into adults!

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.

Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.

Children learn about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., including key players and events, and how it contributed to the eventual passing of the 19th Amendment.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Explore a classic poem filled with imagination and wordplay with this third- and fourth-grade reading worksheet!

A soldier meets a mysterious stranger in a graveyard. Could this be the dark figure that townsfolk have seen darting in and out of the shadows?

Students will provide details of cause and effect events directly related to theme.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when comparing and contrasting.