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.

Learners will practice identifying the problem and solution in texts in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

Children will read this Reader's Theater script, then answer questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Expand your reader’s knowledge of world folklore with this unique and engaging reading comprehension worksheet! 

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

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

Children learn about the life of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, in this timeline activity.

Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Introduce your child to a fascinating new animal, the Baird's tapir. This is just one of many endangered species around the world.

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

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.

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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.

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

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.

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

Your young historian can step back in time and read about an important battle that helped to end the American Revolution.

Have your movie lover read about the history of movies, and then test her reading comprehension as she arranges the events to complete a timeline.

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.”

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Analyze the impact an author’s words can have on the meaning and tone of a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.