Students will identify the author’s purpose and strengthen their reading comprehension with the questions that follow the text.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

In this reading worksheet, just in time for Halloween, kids can read all about Fred Fisher, the star of Australia's most famous ghost story.

Use this resource to track what your student knows (K), wants to know (W), and learned (L) about a nonfiction topic.

After reading The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, complete this comprehension page to test your understanding of the story.

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

This worksheet contains relevant classroom topics that provide a bridge for identifying differences in point of view.

Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

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

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

Use this graphic organizer to list comparisons between two nouns.

Introduce children to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century writer, poet, and philosopher, in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

Is Washington, D.C. a U.S. state or a city? Find out about our nation's capital with this fun, informative history worksheet.

Use this worksheet to teach your students how to write declarative sentences with details from an informational text.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.

Use this Reader’s Theater Script to engage your students as they practice reading fluently.

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

Help your young reader learn to identify themes with the Panchatantra story "The Broken Pot" a classic fable from India that has a moral lesson.

Get to know John Coltrane, a jazz legend, with this music history worksheet! Read his mini-biography and answer some trivia.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Comparing characters in books is a great way to learn more about them, and learn more about how important characters are to books.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

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

Kids love nonsense, in case you haven't already noticed, and this wacky worksheet will work your wonderful wordsmith into a nonsense whirlwind.

Get geared up for the Olympics with this fun reading worksheet about the first modern Olympic games, held in -- where else? -- Greece in 1896.

Submerge yourself in the fascinating history of submarines! Your little inventor will get a taste of the early stages of this important technology.

Paraphrasing is an important writing skill. With this worksheet, your student will learn some history as he practices paraphrasing.