Develop your students’ critical eye with this nonfiction text features checklist! This resource can be used with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

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.

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

Designed to give students practice on identifying script components, this worksheet is a great way to help students practice their writing fluency.

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.

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.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

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

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

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

With this easy-to-use flowchart, your students will learn how to find the theme of a fictional story.

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

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

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Help your child read this page about the Sumatran rhinoceros, where they can color an illustration as they learn about why this animal is endangered.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

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

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

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

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.

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.

Get an interesting lesson in science along with valuable reading practice with this Gregor Mendel biography 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.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Children reflect on the importance of a book's setting as they design a travel brochure for a work of fiction they have read.

Learn some historical myths about gold with this worksheet, touching on the California Gold Rush, King Midas and Jason and the Argonauts.