Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

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

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

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

Use this resource for fluency practice.

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

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

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.

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

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

What's a wombat? If you've got a kid learning life science, give her a fun introduction to animals with these wombat facts..

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

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

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

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.

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

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

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

Reading has so many benefits for kids, such as improving vocabulary and language skills and helping to develop imagination and concentration. Reading logs are a great way for you and your students to keep track of their reading throughout the week!

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

What type of change will you get? Use this resource with your students to compare and contrast chemical and physical reactions.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

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.

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

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

In this Reader's Theater worksheet, students read a script, then answer the reading comprehension questions that follow.