Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Figuring Out the Theme.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

Practice comparing texts that share a distinctive feature within a genre.

Meet Narcissus, a handsome and self-centered demi-god who stars in his own tragic Greek myth.

This graphic organizer helps students quickly identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional text.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

Use this Valentine's Day reader's theater script to engage students as they practice reading fluently.

The Humpty Dumpty story cards are mixed up and don’t make sense. Ask your students to solve this case by cutting the cards out and putting them in order from beginning, to the middle, and the end.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

In this Court Cases worksheet, students read descriptions of five landmark decisions, then match them to their correct name.

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!

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Election season is here, so pull out the crayons and let your future voter dive into the world of politics.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Children learn about Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and civil rights advocate best remembered for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement.

Introduce children to Italian Christmas traditions with this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Students will learn about the life history of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, in this introductory civics worksheet.

Use this organizer to dig deep when comparing and contrasting texts within a genre.

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

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

Your second grader can use this Venn diagram to list traits of their favorite book characters. Help them expand their vocabulary with new, descriptive words.

How do different plants respond to hot or cold temperatures? In this hands-on worksheet, students will analyze two different texts, comparing and contrasting details in both texts.

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.

A reading comprehension assignment with monsters and a wickedly complex labryinth? Yes, please!