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

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 finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.

This worksheet provides a culminating project for Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This Louis Pasteur biography goes over his accomplishments, and includes a bacteria-based science activity at the end!

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

Your budding historian can learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the first African American military troops to serve in peacetime.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Students build critical thinking skills as they analyze the setting in Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

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

Learners will read and interpret three types of nonfiction text features in this three-page practice worksheet.

Students can use this versatile graphic organizer to order events in fiction or nonfiction texts.

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Have students use this worksheet during partnership discussions to ask and answer questions about a topic or text.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.

Introduce your students to two myths from different cultures.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!

This graphic organizer helps students work through a nonfiction text to help organize information about the author’s point, and the reasons and evidence used to support it.

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Children practice summarizing and reflecting more deeply about the books they read by answering four thought-provoking questions.

Help students ask and answer questions as they gather information from other students.

This worksheet is a quick-reference tool of space vocabulary for kids, with an exercise to use the words properly in provided sentences.

These printable cards give students the chance to practice using supporting evidence to identify an author’s claims.

Engage in some sneaky warfare with the tale of the Trojan Horse, one of the most legendary Greek myths ever told.

Any kid studying the American Revolution will likely have to memorize this famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

History buffs, get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know about all of our U.S. presidents with a fun matching game!