Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

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.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of rock 'n' roll music and the history of African-Americans in pop music!

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

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool sea turtle facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

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

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

What are the effects of storms and other weather events? Students will create flow charts that represent the multiple effects that are a result of specific weather causes.

Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.

Poor Odysseus was just trying to get home when he ran into the Cyclops monster. Find all about it in this epic Greek myth!

In this resource, students will identify sequence words in the summary of a well-known fairy tale. Then they'll read a short story and write a summary with the help of a sequence word bank.

Before your child gets started writing research reports, help them learn that not all sources are created equal.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Get ready to take an exciting trip as you read this cheerful passage!

Students read short biographies of pilot Bessie Coleman and astronaut Mae Jemison, each a pioneer in her field. They then practice using a Venn diagram to compare the lives and accomplishments of each woman.