Ready for Halloween? Here's Noppera Bo, a terrifying folk tale from Japan, to help you celebrate.

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

How many similies can you find in this Christmas poem? Get into the holiday spirit with a holiday classic, "The Night Before Christmas"!

How do events change characters in the story, or the story itself? Use this worksheet to review the concept of cause and effect.

With this storyboard, students will draw and write about events in a chronological order.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Go on a reading adventure with Sinbad the Sailor, a hero of Middle Eastern myth and a great excuse to practice reading comprehension.

Celebrate Black History Month by studying the contributions of African-American jazz legend Charlie Parker!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.

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

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Challenge your student's knowledge of the U.S. presidents with this series of match-up games.

Empress Wu Zetian ruled China when the western world was in the Dark Ages. This 2nd grade worksheet that balances history with reading comprehension skills.

With this worksheet students will define the importance of play vocabulary words and provide examples.

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Take the monotony out of researching a topic with this Two Truths and One Lie worksheet.

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

Science fiction is a hugely popular genre of books, movies and TV shows. Read this worksheet to get a taste of some of the originators of sci-fi.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Use this exercise with your students as they focus on finding the similarities between two short fiction texts.

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Young readers practice close reading as they learn about black bears in this literacy worksheet.

Get to know nonfiction text features! Use this resource with your class to compare nonfiction text features for same-topic selections. This resource goes along with the Comparing Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan.

Learn about first Lady Dolley Madison with this history worksheet, complete with some reading comprehension exercises.