Children are introduced to author, activist, and poet Maya Angelou in this historial heroes worksheet.

The "Somebody Wanted But So Then" reading strategy is a great way to help kids identify the key elements of a story. Students will use this easy format to begin summarizing a story of your choice in this fun treasure map-themed worksheet!

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.

Help your early reader get to know a classic Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. He'll make a prediction about what will happen, and identify the moral.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Use this handy fluency checklist to help your students track their accuracy, expression, and pacing when reading to support comprehension!

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

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.

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.

Practice finding and identifying text features with your second grader using this helpful checklist.

Take an adventure through the woods with this "Little Red Riding Hood" story, fit for young readers.

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

Students will read and recall a story by answering comprehensive questions about the series of the events in the story.

Learn to separate fact from fiction with this comparative worksheet.

Help the Smith family summarize their family vacation with a main idea, details, and a conclusion. Kids will work on reading comprehension and summarizing.

This rubric can be used with any lesson where students are learning or practicing fluency.

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.

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

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.

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Take a quiz on basic facts about U.S. history and government.

Why do athletes get their own cards but not book characters? Change all that with this fun, reusable worksheet.

Here's a famous story from Norse mythology that involves him, Loki, and their adventures in the land of the giants.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Summarizing stories has never tasted so good! Students can use this yummy ice cream-themed graphic organizer to form short summaries of fiction they read independently or with the class.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Give your second graders' logical thinking skills and reading comprehension a healthy boost with a lesson in cause and effect. Students will practice determining cause and effect with this short, funny story about a wishing fountain.

In this historical heroes worksheet, children are introduced to Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to help found Tuskegee University and advocate for the educational and civl rights of fellow African Americans.