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

Kids can demonstrate their understanding of what they are reading with this printable bookmark.

Children will use six question words — who, what, when, where, why, and how — to identify the problem and solution in a short passage.

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Use this resource to give your students practice using a simple sentence structure to describe characters, setting, and events.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

Use this exercise to teach your students how to gain information from the text and the text features to better understand a topic.

Use this resource with your students to give them practice reading a fable and categorizing sentences as either examples of realism or fantasy.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading closely with this multi-page story featuring questions on the main character, sequencing, and recalling details.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children read a fable of a man, a boy, and a donkey who are headed to market, and the advice they get along the way!

Students will read more about our very own American Loch Ness monster. Then, theyÃll cut out a picture of each and paste it in its correct spot in the map.

In this worksheet, children read a classic fable about a man and his son who get too much advice!

Discover how events are related to their outcomes in this worksheet!

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

This resource will help your students practice an important reading comprehension skill as they read a fiction text and identify cause and effect relationships

This prediction activity engages students in thinking about the skill of Ãpredictingà from a writerÃs point of view.

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.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Imagine racing along the shoreline with the wind in this second- and third-grade poetry comprehension worksheet!