Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Comparing and contrasting nonfiction stories is an important skill for fourth and fifth graders. This worksheet gives kids plenty of chance to practice.

Get ready for Thanksgiving with this worksheet about Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims' first home in America.

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children keep track of their weekday reading with this useful two-page template.

It can be tricky to sort out different perspectives in a complex book! Use this activity to help your learner think about how two different characters feel about the same event or challenge.

Don't lose your head over reading comprehension this Halloween...try it with Ichabod Crane and the story of Sleepy Hollow.

Help students build critical thinking skills by having them analyze the main characters in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Celebrate Black History Month by learning about the birth of rock 'n' roll music and the history of African-Americans in pop music!

Use this graphic organizer to help your students identify the four elements of a fictional story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Learn more about the imposing tsunami with this worksheet about the science of tsunamis.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

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.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the characters, themes, and events from The One and Only Ivan.

Help students practice close reading of fiction or nonfiction texts with this detailed checklist.

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

Learn all about wildfires, a natural phenomenon looked upon with awe and caution.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

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

After reading the next few chapters of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising, engage students in discussion with this two-page guide!

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

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

Prepare students for reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle by guiding them through this anticipation guide as a pre-reading activity!

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

In this fiction comprehension exercise, your students will use transition words to help them write about the problem and solution in three short stories.

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

Here's a snapshot of the story of Orion. His tale makes for light reading and simple practice with story structure for kids.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–8 of Anne of Green Gables.