As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

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

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Your child can make her own storybook with this series of Japanese folktale coloring pages!

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

This tree anatomy worksheet will give your little naturalist a better understanding of the parts that make up a tree.

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Introduce your child to Momotaro, a popular Japanese folktale! Your child will get to make her own story book by coloring the illustrations.

This easy-to-assemble bookmark offers helpful tips for readers as they encounter unfamiliar words and make sense of what they have read.

Your students will practice fiction comprehension while they read this short story about best friends and then make connections and predictions based on the reading.

There's nothing better than a mug of hot chocolate! Your child can work on their writing skills as they describe how to make a great cup of cocoa.

Authors use sensory language to make their writing more descriptive. Have your students consider the words authors use to create specific moods in this fun pumpkin-themed worksheet!

The Nutcracker story tells the tale of a girl who discovers some Christmas magic. Color in The Nutcracker story with your child and make your own holiday book.

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.