Build third and fourth graders’ reading fluency with this short story!

Practice reading poetry with this fourth- and fifth-grade resource!

Your little reader is sure to enjoy this selection from the children's classic, "The Secret Garden." Students will build their vocabulary and reading skills.

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

Young readers will enjoy this passage from Jack London's "All Gold Canyon." They'll complete some vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises too.

This pre-reading activity is a great way to prepare students for reading The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

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

Explore the sights and sounds of the prairie with this fourth- and fifth-grade reading-comprehension activity!

Students will answer who, what, when, where, when, why, and how questions after reading a story by Rudyard Kipling.

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

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Read this classic story by Rudyard Kipling with your students for basic reading comprehension practice. As they answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, your students will prove that they understand what they read!

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

After reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Young readers respond to the books they have completed with this versatile worksheet template.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Explore cause and effect in a short excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons with this targeted reading comprehension worksheet!