3rd - 8th Grade Reading Resources : Page 4

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

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Your students will read two short stories, then compare and contrast the characters, problems, solutions, and themes with the help of a graphic organizer.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Introduce students to one of the leading figures of the United States civil rights movement with this reading comprehension worksheet all about Thurgood Marshall!

Discover why an odd-looking tree is known as Africa’s "tree of life" with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!

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

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Students read a two-page adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi" and dig deep into the figurative language and literary devices of this classic story!

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from the Grimm Brothers' "The Golden Bird."

Jane Goodall has devoted her life to studying animals in the wild. This worksheet should spark an interest in research and recording in kids who love animals.

Meet the curious mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi in this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet adapted from the classic Rudyard Kipling tale.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Get familiar with some types of poetry in this worksheet that covers different poetry structures.

This exercise will strengthen your students' reading comprehension.

Students practice essential reading comprehension skills in this worksheet that features a passage about a boy who takes hang gliding lessons and becomes airborne for the first time.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage! 

Children learn to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" method to write a short summary in this literacy worksheet.

Compare and contrast two scenes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

Want to help your young readers learn to discern the central message or lesson of fictional stories? Have your students read this short version of the classic fable of the "Lion and the Mouse" by Aesop to practice determining the moral.

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.

Practice analyzing characters with this worksheet that features an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. 

Learners will practice distinguishing fact from opinion in this literacy worksheet.

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.