Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with the fable, The Serpent and the Eagle.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

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

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

Teach students all about the Jamestown colony with this social studies worksheet!

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

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

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

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Animal lovers, get acquainted with a very unique species, the okapi! Read this info-sheet to learn about why this animal is endangered.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

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

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

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

E-mail is here to stay, but that doesn't mean kids shouldn't learn how to write a friendly letter.Teach your child how to write a letter to a friend.

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

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

Study the map of terrestrial biomes, then use it to answer questions.

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