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.

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

Differentiating between facts and opinions is a key fourth grade skill to master and is helpful in identifying the author’s purpose in a text. Use this activity to give your students extra practice differentiating between these two kinds of sentence

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Help students match information about text features together in this review worksheet!

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.

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

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

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool octopus facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

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

Young readers will love digging into this passage's cool sea turtle facts, and they'll get a nice reading comprehension workout in the process.

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

Young historians learn about four pioneering female scientists as they hone their research skills in this Who Am I? Women in Science worksheet.

Have you ever wondered what keeps the moon in orbit? Newton's first law gets a quick introduction, too, in this worksheet for kids. Check it out!

Improve your child's reading skills and introduce her the classic tale of Peter Rabbit with this comprehension page, all about finding the main idea.

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.

Children read a classic fable with an eye toward character analysis in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

This graphic organizer can help students analyze a story, scenario, disagreement or controversy from multiple perspectives.

The ability to paraphrase is a valuable skill! Help your child learn to put informational text in her own words, with this passage about the Nile River.

After reading Esperanza Rising, get students thinking about point of view with this creative novel study extension activity!

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.

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

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

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.