Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

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.

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

Learners will practice analyzing a short script in this winter-themed reading comprehension worksheet.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

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!

Learners get a brief introduction to the capital of the United States in this worksheet.

Provide your students support as they work on improving their reading comprehension skills by creating a nonfiction text summary.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

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.

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.

The class watched an exciting movie about a castle adventure. But now the students need help recalling the details of the film.

What happened in the story? Use this helpful graphic organizer to capture the characters, setting, and important events in a fiction text.

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

Your students will love reading this classic fable as they seek to determine the author’s purpose and differentiate fiction from nonfiction.

The Ant and the Grasshopper story cards help your visual learner understand what happens in the classic fable. Kids arrange picture cards to tell the story.

This short nonfiction text will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words—and they'll have fun learning all about the life cycle of a chicken in the process!

Give your young readers some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the beloved story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will consider protagonists, antagonists, and character dynamics with this version of the classic story.

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.

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

Can you haiku? Put your syllable knowledge to good use and count the beats with these seasonal haiku poems.

Count the syllables in the limericks in this poetry worksheet!

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

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.

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.

Young readers dip their toes into character analysis with this fun graphic organizer.

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.

Put the events of the story in sequential order from what happened first to what happened last. Then read the story to learn more about Rocky!

This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.