Young historians will love learning facts about the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson while practicing their reading comprehension and writing skills.

Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

America gets its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Kids will learn about this important historical figure with this fun worksheet.

Explore characters in literature by extracting clues from this paragraph about one of the main Secret Garden characters: Miss Mary Lennox.

Students will use an adjective word bank to help them identify statements of fact and opinion.

Children learn about George Washington Carver, who rose from slavery to become a leading agricultural pioneer, innovator, inventor, and educator, in this historical heroes worksheet.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

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

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

In this resource, students will practice writing a simple summary of a fiction story using a paragraph frame with sequence words.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point.

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

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

This passage sheds light to the powerful women's workforce in World War 2. After reading the passage, students will use their critical thinking stills to answer comprehension questions.

What are the effects of storms and other weather events? Students will create flow charts that represent the multiple effects that are a result of specific weather causes.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Every state has lots of court houses and hundreds of judges, but our country has set one court above all the rest -- the Supreme Court.

Learners practice comparing a variety of story elements, including characters, setting, and key events, in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children learn key vocabulary related to the executive branch of the U.S. government in this spelling worksheet.

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Learn about a mysterious sea creature as you pick out important information for a nonfiction summary.