Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Use this resource to help your students familiarize themselves with the concept of literary themes.

Students will answer questions about a nonfiction text and find quotes to support their answers.

Use this exercise to give your students practice using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Students identify noun phrases that describe character and setting.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

Introduce students to the concept of using direct quotes as evidence to support statements.

Read about the earth's coldest land biome, the tundra, then fill in the blanks to review what you've learned.

Jump into the lyrics of the U.S. national anthem with a reading comprehension worksheet. Kids read the song, and then draw a picture to illustrate it.

Your students will pick their favorite information and create a travel brochure all about Amsterdam, complete with a map!

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Travel to the Land of the Munchkins in this Wizard of Oz worksheet, which focuses on story details and setting.

Learners practice comparing two stories with similar characters and themes in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

Learners will practice using nonfiction text features to support their understanding of a short text about the Winter Olympics.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

How did our society become so advanced? Introduce your student to the Industrial Revolution with this reading sheet.

Students will pick their favorite facts about the city of Prague and create their own travel brochure, complete with a map.

Young readers will refer to a passage from The Secret Garden to answer a series of reading comprehension questions.

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

During this reading exercise, students will work in small groups to look at various sample passages and sort them based on firsthand or secondhand accounts.

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

Learners will practice identifying the theme of a story by reading a short passage and answering four comprehension questions.

Introduce your student to an endangered species, Przewalski's horse, with this information sheet. They can color the illustration as they read.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

Paraphrasing means putting another's writing into your own words. This is an important skill for middle school children to master.

Meet Charles Darwin, the man responsible for the theory of evolution and many other revolutionary scientific discoveries.