In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

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

Children work on reading fluency and comprehension with this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Read this shortened version of the Monkey King story, then try your hand at writing a new folk tale starring the Monkey King himself!

Help students appreciate the information they can get from text features!

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

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Students will read passages and compare the traits of two characters.

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

Practice analyzing point of view and perspective with this relatable excerpt from Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

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

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

Use this chocolate-themed exercise to introduce your students to close reading with annotations.

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

This reading comprehension worksheet features Kipling's "The Elephant's Child," an origin story that offers a whimsical explanation for the elephant's long trunk.

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.

Learners will categorize 12 different types of text according to why the author would write them, using the acronym PIE as a mnemonic device.

Young readers will discover how to identify the point of view of a story or text in this literacy worksheet.

Young readers practice identifying the theme of a story in this thoughtful fable about two friends who find gold in the forest.

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.