In this exercise, students will work through a series of steps to identify the theme of a classic story.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Take an imaginary trip to a country that loves baseball, boxing and basketball. It's not America -- it's the Dominican Republic!

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

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.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Children put their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution to the test with this simple quiz!

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Kids identify information about characters and setting in this worksheet.

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.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Use this graphic organizer to have students write words or draw pictures to complete the story map.

What do you know about the wonderful country of Guatemala? Find out how the country got its name and what the people like to do for fun!

Use this resource to help your students identify story elements in sentences.

Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.