Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

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.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

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

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Use this worksheet to help your child learn a little bit about the North Pole!