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.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

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.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

If your budding reading is writing their first book report, help them nail down the plot with this quick review worksheet.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

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

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

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.

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

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

Use this half-sheet graphic reading log to help students write simple summaries.

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Kids hunt for clues about a character's traits with this worksheet.

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

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

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.