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

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

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

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Use this resource with your students as they identify the different ways a character tries to solve a problem.

Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.

Is your child just learning how to cook? Help her learn the fundamentals of kitchen safety with this cheat-sheet.

Children learn about the food cycle in a rain forest as they color in a scene of snakes, butterflies, leopards, and other forest-dwelling creatures.

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

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

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

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

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony and important settlers with this social studies worksheet.

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

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!

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

Students will use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then structure to summarize a short fiction text.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of rock 'n' roll music and the history of African-Americans in pop music!

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

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 are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

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

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Students will practice using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.