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

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Read and analyze a classic example of historical fiction with this adapted excerpt from Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper!

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

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.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

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.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.

The Shoshone were an important Native American tribe. Your little historian will learn about the culture and history of this tribe.

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!

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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.