Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

Readers work on their understanding of cause and effect as they identify instances of each in a short passage of fiction.

This worksheet offers an engaging, meaningful framework for young writers as they learn to build and write compelling arguments.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

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

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Have your third grader practice their reading fluency with this passage about Autumn.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

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

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.

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

One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practice spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.

Kids hunt for different reading genres using this interactive worksheet.

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

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

This cause and effect worksheet opens your child up to improved critical thinking abilities. Use this cause and effect worksheet to focus on story structure.

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

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

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

This story map will help organize students' retelling of stories while reinforcing the concepts of sequencing, main idea, character traits, and setting.

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

In this worksheet, readers learn about the fascinating kangaroo, then use both the text and text features to answer questions.