Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

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

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

What are the effects of storms and other weather events? Students will create flow charts that represent the multiple effects that are a result of specific weather causes.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Children learn facts about dolphin's evolution, behavior, and physical traits in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

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

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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 students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

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!

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

In this worksheet, kids find the titles of well-loved children’s stories — and match them to the sequence of emojis that describe them.