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

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.

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.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

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

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use this resource to teach your students how to use introductory phrases as they cite text evidence in their answers.

If your child is writing their first book report, help them get a handle on the characters in their book.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

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

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

Use this reading and writing worksheet to teach first and second grade students about Angela Davis and her life as an activist, writer, and scholar.

Introduce second and third graders to W.E.B. Du Bois, writer, sociologist, and civil rights advocate, with this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

In this fun worksheet template, children compose a letter with an extra-special destination: the future!

Folktales are a great way to get your child into reading, and to help them consider moral values as well!

Use this high-interest text with your students to practice recognizing the author’s point of view. Students will determine the author’s viewpoint on the subject of the Titanic as they establish their own points of view.

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

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

Children practice connecting cause to effect in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Young readers can discover the history of the Choctaw Native American tribe with this history worksheet.

Learners compare two fiction stories for characters, setting, and plot in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Help your third grader with reading comprehension in this fun activity page on Rudyard Kipling's charming story, "The Elephant's Child."

Give your star reader a great way to get their thoughts organized. This star graphic organizer will help them practice basic reading comprehension.