All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Use this resource with your students to practice looking at pronouns in sentences to determine the point of view narration. Your students will be challenged to create new sentences written in first person.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Beginning readers, enjoy this passage from Twain's classic "The Prince and the Pauper" and then complete some vocabulary and comprehension questions.

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.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Embark on an adventure through the woods with the Mole, in this excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's charming book, The Wind in the Willows.

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.

Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

If your budding reading is writing their first book report, help them nail down the plot with this quick review worksheet.

Use this handy genre guide to teach students about 14 different genres!

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.

During this activity, students will match parts of a story to one of four elements.

Help students master summarizing using keywords with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children to identify the theme of a story from the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of Indian animal fables.

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

This comprehensive exercise will introduce your students to twelve elements of poetry and six types of poems.

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

Use this resource to help your students track information as they compare and contrast the story elements from two fiction texts