Use this resource to get your students comparing and contrasting information from two short texts.

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

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

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Children learn how to spot the protagonist and supporting characters in a work of fiction.

Is your child having trouble navigating the rough waters of reading? Hand her this worksheet about some Olympic events: canoeing and kayaking.

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

Explore the sounds and patterns of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Discover the rhythm and rhyme of poetry with this second- and third-grade reading activity!

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying characters and their dialogue.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the "shot heard around the world" and began the American Revolution.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

Bring it back to the basics with this reading comprehension exercise about Mindy, her birthday party, and her cake.

Good readers are able to compare and contrast key points between two texts on the same topic. With this worksheet, your students will practice this important concept by reading two different texts on feeding pets and identifying the similarities and diffe

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.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

This is a comprehension resource for students to record their questions before, during, and after they have read nonfiction text.

Students will use this graphic organizer to compare and contrast two fiction stories.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

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

This exercise is designed to reinforce the concept of comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. Your students will write complete sentences with the support of sentence frames.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Use this resource to teach your students to identify cause and effect relationships in context by looking at the signal words.

Analyze a short poem in this second- and third-grade practice worksheet!

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.

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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.