This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

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.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Use this resource for fluency practice.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

This reading comprehension worksheet features Kipling's "The Elephant's Child," an origin story that offers a whimsical explanation for the elephant's long trunk.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

What's a wombat? If you've got a kid learning life science, give her a fun introduction to animals with these wombat facts..

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.