Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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!

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!

Students will use transition words to support understanding of comparing and contrasting.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Searching for a worksheet to help with your kid's reading skills? This printable uses a classic Aesop Fable.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

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.

Inspire your reluctant reader with this comprehension page, featuring a passage from a classic novel, Black Beauty.

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

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Read interesting nonfiction texts about natural disasters and practice identifying causes and effects.

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

Help your student with reading comprehension, and enjoy a favorite short story by Rudyard Kipling, about a King, a Queen and two quarreling butterflies.

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

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

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.

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

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

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

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