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.

Help your growing reader understand characterization with this worksheet that asks her to identify the heroes and villains in the book she's reading.

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.

What happened and why? Match the events in cause-and-effect pairs in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

How do the Sun and the Moon interact with the Earth, and how do all three depend on one another? Find out in this science worksheet.

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

This resource helps your EL students identify and explain charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Let this worksheet cause you to develop your cause-and-effect skills!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Problem and Solution Summaries.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparative and Superlative.

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!

Have your students practice finding the cause and effect relationships between two sentences.

Use this resource with your students to get them making connections between two nonfiction texts on the same topic. They will use a Venn diagram to organize the similarities and differences.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Signal Cause and Effect.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

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

Learn how frogs and butterflies transform as they grow into adults!

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.

Students will read a passage and search for signal words to identify facts and opinions.