Learners will practice identifying the author's purpose in eight sample paragraphs, using text evidence to support their choice.

Use this fall-themed Reader’s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

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.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

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

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

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.

Children learn how to identify cause and effect with the help of a friendly root vegetable in this playful worksheet.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Teach your students to write a simple summary using an easy-to-follow set of keywords.

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

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading and writing worksheet.

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

Every story has a turning point or two, and this worksheet encourages your kid to examine the main event in a book up close.

Cut out this cool bookmark to spice up the reading experience for your readers. Students review the book they're reading and keep track of new words as they go.

This graphic organizer will help your students reflect on important story elements in their fantasy texts, as well as focus on the key details of their stories.

Put a personalized twist on the old-school bookmark and your young reader will make the experience more fun for themselves by reviewing the book as they go.

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

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Pick out the Parts of a Story.

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.