Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

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

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

Reading nonfiction can be tricky, whether read individually or as a group. Young readers will be asked to match common text features to the correct illustrated features in this tree-themed activity.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Can your child tell fact from fiction? Boost reading comprehension with this story sheet featuring a famous tall tale character: Paul Bunyan!

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

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

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

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.

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

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.