Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

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

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.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

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

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

After completing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help students connect to the novel with this acts of kindness activity.

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

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This ELA-focused choice board is perfect for supporting independence and encouraging students to practice their reading skills, build reading fluency, and boost reading comprehension.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Many folk tales share similarities, but are also very different. Can you find the similarities and differences between these two stories?

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.

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson. 

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

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.

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

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

Prepare students for reading R.J. Palacio’s Wonder by having them complete this pre-reading activity!

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

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.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

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

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Keep a record of friends you meet over the summer with this impromptu address book to fill with fun facts about all the friends you make this summer.