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.

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

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

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

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.

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.

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

If your budding reading is writing their first book report, help them nail down the plot with this quick review worksheet.

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

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

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

Here's a chapter summary guide where your child can jot down the characters in a chapter, his favorite character and even predict what will happen next.

Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

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

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

This rubric can be used with any lesson where students are learning or practicing fluency.

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

Children compare and contrast two texts with an eye toward setting in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Tuck this chapter summary chart into reading workshop folders to help students keep track of longer chapter books. When they finish the book, have them look back at this to create a whole-book summary!

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Use this resource with your students to practice relating to the text by making connections. Your students will practice making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections as they read literature or informational text.

Your third graders will love reading this story about Mike, his friends, the kickball game, and the runaway ball! Use this resource with your students as they answer basic comprehension questions about a fiction text.

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

Use this resource to practice describing characters in a fairy tale. Students will use adverbs, adjectives, and verbs to gain an understanding of the character traits.

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

During or after reading a fictional book, help your learner put their thoughts onto paper with this book or character mind map!

Learning to read chapter books and summarize the key components is an important skill for young readers. Use this handy guide to assist your child in writing about the characters, setting, conflict, and goals in the book they are reading.