Prepare students for reading Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by building background knowledge about the rise of Hitler in Germany after World War I.

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this upper elementary reading comprehension worksheet!

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of jazz music, and the history of African-Americans in pop music.

Students will refer to important details to answer text-dependent questions about some wild weather! Get ready to read like a detective and learn some cool facts along the way.

This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Read about the history of the Winchester Mystery House, and then answer some comprehension questions.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Use this reading worksheet to help second and third graders learn about the inspiring work of Jane Goodall, famous scientist and conservationist.

Study the map of terrestrial biomes, then use it to answer questions.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Introduce students to the inspiring environmental activist Wangari Maathai. Children will read a short biography about the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.