Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

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.

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.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

Keep this organizer handy for your students to keep track of the chapters they've read and look ahead to the next one! Challenge your young readers to take their chapter summaries one step further by having them write out predictions for upcoming chapters

Enjoy a heartwarming, childhood classic, The Velveteen Rabbit! Your little one will love coloring these storybook pages as she reads.

In this worksheet, second and third graders will practice two important reading fluency strategies: rereading and rereading aloud.

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

What happened first? Have your young reader find the beginning, middle, and end of this short story. Use the illustrations to help her picture the events.

Use this worksheet to have students write or draw about their reading each day.

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

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

Does your little learner have a tough time paying attention? Give him a fun activity where he'll practice following directions in order to solve a riddle.

Track down the main idea in this foundational worksheet! 

Learn how frogs and butterflies transform as they grow into adults!

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

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

Come explore the ocean blue as you dive into this aquatic nonfiction passage!

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

Build comprehension skills with this reading page on cause and effect for kids.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Learn the difference between fact and opinion! Your child will build basic logic skills as they decide which statements are facts and which are not.

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

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.

Practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions using this handy worksheet.

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

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