Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.

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

Batter up! It's time to get a hands-on history lesson in this fun printable activity that flexes your fourth-grader's memory and comprehension muscles

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

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. Discover the important features of the battle with this worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice connecting key events in nature. They will read about the water cycle and note the steps in order that they occur.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Get ready for Thanksgiving with this worksheet about Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims' first home in America.

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.

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

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

After reading a short story, your students will practice writing a simple summary.

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

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

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

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.