2nd - 7th Grade Reading Resources : Page 33

Help inspire your little writer with a fun prompt! They'll use their favorite song as fuel for beginning poetry analysis.

Let your students show you the way through a story of their choice using this fun road map! Your students will get to flex their reading comprehension muscles as they write about various story elements, including main characters, setting, and plot.

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

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

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African American jazz legends! Here’s a page on Thelonious Monk, the first name in the modern jazz movement.

What do you know about the wonderful country of Guatemala? Find out how the country got its name and what the people like to do for fun!

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!

Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

In this worksheet, children read about the March on Washington, the ideals that inspired it,  and the people who attended it.

Use these discussion questions to engage students in thoughtful dialogue as they read chapters 9-12 of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising!

Challenge your students to consider the author's intention of a piece of writing. Ask your students to read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If-" and answer the questions about the author's intent.

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, give students this fun artistic assignment as an extension activity! 

Did you know that Queen Isabella of Spain paid for Columbus' expedition to the New World? Read more about this interesting woman in history.

Let's make some nonsense! Using "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, a poem famous for its otherworldly wacky words, your child makes his own nonsense.

This Halloween-themed worksheet is designed to help students understand the goal of the Teal Pumpkin Project while also providing practice reading nonfiction and citing evidence in nonfiction texts.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

After finishing the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, give students a chance to “receive” a memory with this engaging extension activity!

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

They don't make gardens like this anymore. More a combinaton amusement park and treasure trove, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the spot to visit.

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing and evaluating the structure of a nonfiction text.

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Reading primary sources doesn't have to be a bore! Learn to gather information from records using data given by celebrity whom you just might know.

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.