Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

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 this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Is the tale of Johnny Appleseed fact or fiction? Perhaps it's a bit of both! Introduce your child to a famous figure from a classic tall tale.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

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

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in this poem by Emily Dickinson.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

Make sequencing stories more interesting than just beginning, middle, and end! This "handy" graphic organizer can be used with all fiction to help set up a concise but thorough summary using a five finger strategy.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

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.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.