Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

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.

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

Assess your students' read-alouds with this versatile rubric.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

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

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

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

This graphic organizer guides readers to complete a story map of their reading by having them record the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Find out all about the gorgeous mountains, delicious food and unusual national animals that make Peru such a unique and wonderful nation.

Get ready for some active reading! As your students read through this passage, they will underline key words and reinforce their understanding of words in context.

These fun dog-themed worksheets will help fifth graders practice their reading comprehension skills.

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

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

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Common Theme Words.

Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.

In this worksheet, children will learn to identify signal words and visuals that writers use when describing cause and effect.

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

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.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.