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

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

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

Here's a Loki myth to satisfy fans of this sneaky god: Loki and the Builder, where he tries to outwit an equally sneaky human.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

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

This informative and inspiring worksheet will have your students compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women’s sports!

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool sea turtle facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

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

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

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

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

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

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

Want to get your kids thinking critically about what they're reading? This fruit-themed Venn diagram alternative will help students to compare and contrast two topics or books during or after reading nonfiction texts.

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

Feel inspired to move to the beat with our reading comprehension exercise about Mexican music. Kids answer questions about the article in this writing worksheet.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.