Let's make some nonsense! Using "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, a poem famous for its otherworldly wacky words, your child makes his own nonsense.

Students can read the origin of the strange creature known as Beast of Bray Road and decide whether or not they believe the stories.

As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practice both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

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.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

This template encourages thoughtful, engaged reading as children practice making predictions as they go.

Explore the art of papier-mâché in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Use this worksheet to help students make a prediction about a characters’ actions.

Children use their critical thinking skills to make predictions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Make reading fun with this whale of a tale, "How the Whale Got His Throat," by Rudyard Kipling!

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

Ancient mariners mistook the manatee for a mermaid! Your young biologist won't make the same mistake after learning about the manatee with this worksheet.

Make reading time fun, with this classic short story by Rudyard Kipling. Then, complete a few comprehension activities on "How the Alphabet Was Made."

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.

Clues can help us make predictions! Students will read a story about Molly, find the clues, and use those clues to predict what Molly will do next.

When children encounter new words, they don't need to make a beeline for the dictionary. Train them to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word.

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.

After reading Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.