Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Hang out with two seriously challenged love birds, the god Cupid and his human girlfriend Psyche.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Use this worksheet to help your students analyze and talk about cause-and-effect text structure.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

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.

Develop your student's writing skills with this character and setting worksheet. Encourage your students to use interesting adverbs and adjectives in their descriptions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Characters and Settings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Elections and Conditions.

During this activity, students will create cause and effect comic strips complete with captions, pictures, and speech and sound effect bubbles.

A reading comprehension assignment with monsters and a wickedly complex labryinth? Yes, please!

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

What happened and why? Match the events in cause-and-effect pairs in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet!

These bookmarks will provide thinking frames for your students as they read, encouraging deeper thinking and strengthening comprehension.

In this yummy exercise, students will differentiate between statements of fact and opinion as they read all about chocolate!

When paired with nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between two accounts of the same event.

Do your students know the difference between Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and Labor Day? This reading comprehension worksheet will teach them about the similarities and differences of the holidays. First, they’ll read a passage that provides facts ab

Is your child having trouble navigating the rough waters of reading? Hand her this worksheet about some Olympic events: canoeing and kayaking.

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

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