This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

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

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

Read this text about the Great Depression with your students as they build comprehension skills.

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

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Your students will use this two-sided worksheet to practice distinguishing between facts and opinions. As they do, they’ll have fun learning about howler monkeys!

Learn a fun reading strategy and practice writing fiction summaries using a classic text.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Discover the history of the Seminole tribe with this worksheet! This tribe, originally from Florida, has a rich culture.

Your young historian can explore the Mohawk tribe. This Native American group played an important role in American history.

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

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

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

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children will learn about the St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida.

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

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.

Students will read a short biography of Keller, then answer a thoughtful prompt designed to help them reflect on what they have read.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.