Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Use this resource to teach your students about the six most common words used to start questions.

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

Beginning readers will love this short story by Rudyard Kipling, all about how the animals were first domesticated.

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

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.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

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

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

After reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students dig deeper into the poem referenced throughout the novel: Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

Use this science-themed resource with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view in a text about life cycles. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject as they establish their own points of view.

Your young historian can explore the Mohawk tribe. This Native American group played an important role in American history.

Students will read the Bigfoot story and then answer questions about the reading.

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.