Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.

Your students will demonstrate understanding of a short fiction text by answering who, when, what, where, why, and how questions. Use this as an introduction to the vocabulary in the EL Support Lesson: Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How Questions.

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.

Review the classic American tall tales with this character map! Use your knowledge of setting in a story to show where each of these tall tales originated.

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.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Read about how the capybara live and other interesting facts about capybara. Sure to satisfy your curiosity about capybaras!

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Get to know some of the most famous larger-than-life characters from our traditional oral folklore with this tall tales worksheet!

Stretch student understanding of story sequencing into a summary with this graphic organizer. Students will start by jotting down quick notes to remember each part of the story, then they'll use their notes to write a complete summary of the text.

Meet the legendary John Henry, a famous character from a classic tall tale! Learn the difference between fact and fiction with this fun reading sheet.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

The Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy is a great tool to help students identify and understand story elements. In this fun brainstorming activity, budding writers will use the format to start generating a story of their own!

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Maintaining a reading log is a fun way to encourage your child to set goals and track their progress. Students will keep track of their month-by-month reading stamina and practice their bar graphing with this reading log worksheet.

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Rootin' tootin' cowboys, gather 'round to hear the legendary story of Pecos Bill! Read this tale with your child, and see if he can tell fact from fiction.

The Ant and the Grasshopper is a fable that teaches kids the value of hard work. Kids will focus on comprehension and predictions in this worksheet.

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Dictionary skills are an important part of learning to read and write. Help your little learner understand the different parts of a dictionary entry.

Discover the inner workings of basic earth science in this worksheet on temperature.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Kids will sharpen their dictionary skills with this challenging guide words sort. By sorting a group of words into their correct dictionary locations, young readers will gain confidence and dexterity in their reading and vocabulary abilities.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!