2nd - 8th Grade Reading Resources : Page 14

This composition prompt asks kids to consider one thing they can do and one thing they can stop doing this Earth Day.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Children learn about the history and legacy of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first all-black towns formed after the passage of the 13th Amendment.

This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

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

Read about six epic April Fools' Day hoaxes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Prepare students for reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan by accessing and building background knowledge with this pre-reading activity!

Get some cool facts about geckos on our reading and writing worksheet! Your little one is sure to be tickled by all the curious facts about geckos.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

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.

These baseball rules for kids are a sneaky way to spice up study time.

Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

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

Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence in their answers.

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.

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