Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

The Nez Perce is a Native American tribe in the Northwest U.S. This worksheet will hep your little learner to explore Native American history and culture.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Introduce learners to the American advocate Dorothea Dix with this three-page informational reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

Use this worksheet to learn Cassowary facts, and introduce your child to an exotic species of bird from Down Under.

Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on identifying and evaluating the central ideas of a nonfiction text in this middle grades writing worksheet.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Students will look for noun phrases in a familiar story!

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

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Help your beginning reader learn about phonetic spellings that show how to pronounce a word. In this activity, she'll match each word with its pronunciation.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

In this writing assessment, see how well your students draw connections between texts and the real world.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.