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

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

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.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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.

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

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

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

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

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

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

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

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

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this upper elementary reading comprehension worksheet!

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

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.

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

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

Study the map of terrestrial biomes, then use it to answer questions.

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

A famous "tea party" took place on December 16, 1773, and it was not one that had tea cups and sweet treats. Use this worksheet on the Boston Tea Party to have your students practice relationship between a series of events.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

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.