Explore the major themes of your reading assignment by making a book poster. Don't forget the tagline!

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

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

Use this resource with your students to practice not only identifying the problem and solution in a text, but also the character’s attempts at solving the problem.

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.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Ride along with the Lakota tribe with this history worksheet. These Native Americans were part of the horse culture of the Dakotas.

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.

Students will compare two informational texts on the same topic using a Venn diagram.

After students read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, have them compare and contrast the greasers and the Socs using this two-page novel study extension activity!

Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

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

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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

Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.

Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 1–8 of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water.

Return to school in the fall with a list of your best summer reads by recording them here.

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

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

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

Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

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

Discover the history of the Seminole tribe with this worksheet! This tribe, originally from Florida, has a rich culture.

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.